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It is ten minute walk from my house to down town, not a bad walk on a cool night. Monday is $1.00 beer night and I took a stroll to the old watering hole where I always get into a discussion on spiritual matters and about our community. On the I passed by one of the many Baptist churches in Spindale. The First Baptist was having an outside service. I did not have to stop to listen because baptist preachers speak loud. From the top of his lungs he was shouting, "Global warming!? You do not have t… Continue

I just wanted to share with you the recent steps of this wondrous journey. I left here Sunday convinced that I was being lead by the spirit to discover the "CS Community" in the wilderness where I have found myself. I say this because I have been leaving western NC all my life only to find myself in the very place where I began. But now this once prosperous and religious community is now financially and spiritually bankrupt. In a way it is like me in desperately need of healing. On the way I sto… Continue

The only reason government exist is that it is easier to pay one master thief than every robber that comes down the road. Or so says noted historian Will Durant. Long before God got around to planting the Garden of Eden our ancestors began to gather together for safety often in caves or some other kind of natural barrier. Eight thousand years before the first evidence of writing appeared in Mesopotamia wheat was being cultivated in Syria, sheep and goats herded in Iran and pigs were domesticated… Continue