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  • Pic and a Word ChallengeThe Pic and a Word Challenge comes from Patrick Jennings’ site www.pixtowords.com Each week he provides a photograph of his along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. We are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If we create both images and words, all the better.
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  • Ted Cruz does not represent me

    If you have ALL of the answers to EVERYTHING, it’s not really ‘faith’ anymore, is it? And even if you think you have all of the answers (bless your heart), please don’t think that you have all of MY answers. Because you don’t. And neither does Ted Cruz.

    March 26, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Life, Love, Politics, Prose, Uncategorized
    Christianity, conservative, Faith, Politics, republican, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz
    Ted Cruz does not represent me
  • The power of paying attention and gaining perspective

    Today I will let others’ words speak: From this morning’s episode of “On Being“, with Krista Tippett: The Summer Day Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is…

    February 8, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Faith, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    attention, contentedness, Faith, forgiveness, grateful, hope, Life, Love, mary oliver, niebuhr, perspective, thankful
    The power of paying attention and gaining perspective
  • And Happy Ever After! I wish.

    We will always need (and therefore find) someone or something to blame.

    February 3, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Life, Prose, Purpose, Uncategorized
    blame, contentedness, Into the Woods, Sondheim, wishes
    And Happy Ever After! I wish.
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 2

    Pretty much every model of Christian thought I have sat under has happily fed my view that “The Kingdom of God” is mostly a place that is not here, in a time that is not yet.

    January 26, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Christianity, Humanity, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom of Heaven, Life, Methodist, Ministry, Nazarene, NT Wright, Religion, Samaritan, Spirituality
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 2
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 1

    I make no claim on having “arrived” at anything other than to say I have been elsewhere and now am here.

    January 19, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Christianity, Faith, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Prose, Purpose, Uncategorized
    Christianity, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom of Heaven, Life, Methodist, Nazarene, Religion, Spirituality
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 1
  • Caveats

    I make no claim of being more correct than another in theology or orthodoxy, and in no way will I intend to belittle or judge anyone else’s theology, orthodoxy, or lack thereof.

    January 14, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Charity, Christianity, Christmas, Death, Donald Trump, Faith, Gay marriage, Hillary Clinton, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Politics, Prose, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized, Woodworking
    Christianity, Education, Humanity, Life, Ministry, Music, Religion, Spirituality
    Caveats
  • Yep. Life is Still Messy

    Who I am today is still a work in progress. I think I’ve finally realized I will always be in progress, and accepting that is freeing me to sit at my laptop and tell you (and myself) where I’ve been and where I am, even if that means admitting I DON’T HAVE IT ALL FIGURED…

    January 11, 2015

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Blog Entries, Charity, Christianity, Christmas, Coming Out – The Journey, Death, Donald Trump, Faith, Gay marriage, Hillary Clinton, Homosexuality, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Music, Poetry, Politics, Prose, Purpose, Suicide, Uncategorized, Woodworking
    Yep.  Life is Still Messy
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