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Where Father Figures, Figure in the Family

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Here’s a great guest post from a blogging buddy of mine Jared Latigo. Jared is a writer, speaker and passion guy. His vision in life is to have more people love their work than ones that hate it. Be sure to check out his blog at JaredLatigo.com or follow him on Twitter @JaredLatigo. Here’s his [...]

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25 Christmas songs in 2 minutes

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The holidays tend to bring out the best in people – particularly from a creative perspective. Here’s a creatively, entertaining video from the folks over at ignitermedia.com – they produce a variety of faith-based videos, skits and production pieces. In this particular segment Rob Thomas (aka “Johnny”) and Braun Brown (aka “Chachi”) regale us with [...]

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Celebrating Hanukkah With Cleverbot….

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Last year I discovered Cleverbot, which is a web-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that supposedly has the ability to learn by conversing with humans via an instant messaging platform. While it’s a stretch to say that Cleverbot is actually intelligent, interacting with this particular “thinking” software can be somewhat entertaining. Here’s the most recent interview I [...]

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Top-10 List: Holiday Christmas Specials

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I’m amazed at all of the holiday specials that are playing and replaying this time of year. Growing up during the 1970s with only three TV networks, holiday specials were truly “special.” My fondest memories of those days were the “Animagic” Christmas specials produced by Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. You know the stop-motion classics about [...]

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An Unexpected e-Mail of Encouragement

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A few weeks ago I wrote here about some of the health issues I’ve been dealing with lately. As a general update, every week I’m feeling better and getting healthier. I plan to provide more specific results after the New Year. Since my first post on these health issues, I’ve received many well wishes of [...]

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The Church of the Future

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Today’s guest post comes courtesy of a very witty writing buddy, Bryan Logan. Check out his blog HERE and his entertaining post below. If you’d like to submit a guest post for The Daily ReTORt you can see the guidelines HERE. ================== If you traveled back in time and told your grandparents what the churches [...]

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Open Letter to the Makers of Elf on the Shelf

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To Whom It May Concern: Thank you for creating the Elf on the Shelf franchise of books, cookies, plush dolls, DVDs…etc. which enable parents such as my wife and me the privilege of paying $29.95 to deceive our children. The Story of the Elf As you well know, your fabricated story of the Elf asserts that [...]

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7 Questions With an Author: Tosca Lee

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This post marks another installment of my “7 Questions With an Author…” series, where I ask published authors an unchanging set of questions and share their responses here. Today’s featured author is Tosca Lee. Tosca  is a  New York Times  best-selling novelist whose works include the critically acclaimed Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of [...]

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Guest Post Invitation – Calling All Bloggers

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[EdiTOR's Note: This is a re-post of something I wrote earlier this year, but I'd like to extend the offer once again.] For the past two years or so, I’ve been writing five days a week for my blog, The Daily ReTORt. During that time I’ve had the privilege of guest posting on dozens of [...]

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We Need More Than Ourselves

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I spent most of my Sundays growing up as a kid being dragged to some kind of charismatic church; tent meeting or guest-preacher service. Mostly I was bored. Often I would sleep under the seats. Sometimes I’d smuggle in Matchbox cars and drive them along the curvey armrests of the pews. And other times I [...]

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