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View ArticleNothing More Than Feelings
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View ArticlePornography and the Shame Spiral
I’ve looked at a lot of porn. Up through my early to mid-twenties, porn was a daily part of my life. It’s not something I ...
View ArticleRegret and What it Takes to Forgive Ourselves
Regret is a bastard. The way it clings us to the past, making us recite our flaws, our mistakes, our failures over and over. Regret ...
View ArticlePraying in Foxholes
I need God to show up. I need God to really, actually, truly show up. Not in some spiritual searching for peace way. Rather, I ...
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She licked my face. We worked together, slinging coffee for the Starbucks junkies in Bountiful Utah. It was lots of caramel Frappuccino’s, chai tea lattes ...
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I used to hang out on the smoking porch. The coffee shop was right next to a local pizza joint. The outside seating area was ...
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