25Jul2009
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brendan
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Faith
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“De-baptism”

Ugh. The Augusta Gazette is reporting that a new trend is hitting the Bible Belt: De-baptism. Folks are so disgusted with the church that they are publicly renouncing their faith in a ceremony designed to publicly disassociate themselves with any organized religion. Some interesting quotes from the article: Overall churchgoers aren't good spokespeople for their churches. How many

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30Jun2009
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brendan
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Life
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Foster Care Statistics

I have had several requests for the statistics I shared this weekend: There are more than 523,000 children and youth in the U.S. foster care system, a 90% increase since 1987. 53% are male and 47% female. The average age of a child entering foster care is 10 while 40,000 infants enter the system each year. Statistically, within a year of aging out of the foster care system (some

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27Jun2009
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brendan
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Going through old pictures…

Found this shot of Aaron and Wesley that I'm using in my sermon

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