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Blog #14: Tree on Fire on a Mountain

My wife was telling me about a podcast she was listening to while coming home from work one day, She Explores, which in general highlights stories of women’s experiences in nature and how these relate ...
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Blog 13: coronavirus: apocalypse or new creation?

             Several media pundits and commentators have compared the novel coronavirus outbreak with a catastrophic apocalypse, an end of times event not seen for a few generations.  Since the initial outbreak, this globe-changing particle ...
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Blog 12: Coronavirus (from perspective of spring 2020)

In late 2019 and early 2020, the human population of the world has come under attack of a novel viral infection with a combination of being more contagious, hardier, and deadlier than any recently known ...
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Blog 11: Daunting Invitations

I have been fortunate enough to have the health for participation in several endurance events, notably marathons as well as a handful of triathlons. Finishing my first marathon during my last year of medical school ...
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Blog 10: Over-abundant World

The world in which humans lived several thousand years ago looked little like what we see today, though perhaps more similar than we may initially think. The hunter-gatherers were forced to live in day-to-day mode, ...
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Blog 9: Cain’s Agony

Cain is the first human known to the earth that we inhabit. As stated in Genesis, Adam and Eve were created from dirt and divine breath from the earth, in Eden. Cain is the first ...
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Blog 8: Meant for Us or for God?

A common critique of biblical narrative is that it is primitive, simplistic literature. Most stories are bare bones, providing limited details to the reader. We don’t see many descriptor words, the plot patterns come across ...
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Blog 7: Backward vs Forward?

Is the Genesis story meant to cause reflections and lamentations on the world as it was, in the “good old days”, and nothing more?  We often tend to read these stories as reflections on human ...
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Blog Post 6: Ironman

This is an article I wrote for our local county newspaper shortly after completing my first Ironman triathlon: I did not grow up much of a healthy person, much less an athlete. After-school snacks consisted ...
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ABOUT ME
Thanks for checking out my page. I am a family physician currently practicing in the mountains of rural western North Carolina. Prior to moving to North Carolina, I spent time practicing in rural Ghana and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

My wife Jess and I have two small boys. I grew up eating my fair share of junk food and watching more television than I can remember. I was one of the least athletic kids I knew. Not until my adult years did I engage in routine exercise and pay more attention to what I was putting into my body. This allowed me to start participating in endurance events, mostly road marathons, but also a couple of triathlons.

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This Blog is designed to look into one specific aspect of an ideal world as described in the Hebrew Bible and further elaborated on in the Christian New Testament.  I believe there is an abundance of wisdom that is pertinent for our current context, whether religious or not.  As with any passages in scripture, these are meant for meditation, reflection, and discussion. 
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