Tag Archives: family

Book Review: Under Our Skin

Posted on January 15, 2016 by nathanalbright

Under Our Skin: Getting Real About Race—And Getting Free From The Fears And Frustrations That Divide Us, by Benjamin Watson with Ken Petersen [Note: This book was provided free of charge by Tyndale Momentum in exchange for an honest review.] … Continue reading →

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Find A Mentor, Be A Mentor

Posted on January 11, 2016 by nathanalbright

[Here is the text for a Graduate Club speech given to the Portland UCG Spokesmen’s Club on January 10, 2016 as a very late fill-in for the originally planned speaker.] Shortly after turning eighteen, I moved to Los Angeles to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dangerous Love

Posted on January 9, 2016 by nathanalbright

Dangerous Love: A True Story Of Tragedy, Faith, And Forgiveness In The Muslim World, by Ray Norman [Note: This book was provided by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in exchange for an honest review.] As a water engineer by education and the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Strong And Kind

Posted on January 5, 2016 by nathanalbright

Strong And Kind, And Other Important Character Traits Your child Needs To Succeed, by Korie Robertson with Chrys Howard and with stories and wisdom from Willie Robertson [Note: This book was provided free of charge from BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in … Continue reading →

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The Best Servant Ever

Posted on January 2, 2016 by nathanalbright

Earlier today I was chatting with a friend of mine from my local congregation who helps rustle up the teachers for Sabbath School classes, and she asked me if I would be the backup teacher for this week’s lesson in … Continue reading →

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Some Reasonably Complete Minutes Of The Seminars Of The 2015 Northwest Weekend

Posted on December 26, 2015 by nathanalbright

Since I have the perhaps lamentable tendency to chronicle many of the places where I happen to attend lectures or meetings [1], because this tendency is widely known, and because there are people I know who want to have a … Continue reading →

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The Worst Disease Is Loneliness

Posted on December 26, 2015 by nathanalbright

Earlier this week, some of my coworkers expressed a desire to know how I spent my day. Since I already have a fairly long post planned to talk about the specific content of the seminars I attended today, I thought … Continue reading →

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True Confessions Of A Bibliophile

Posted on December 24, 2015 by nathanalbright

As I write this, this morning I went to my local library before it opened to drop off some books on the way to work that I had finished reading and reviewing, as is often my fashion. As it happened, … Continue reading →

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Character, Like A Photograph, Develops In Darkness

Posted on December 23, 2015 by nathanalbright

This morning as I was driving to work, I happened to be flipping through my preset radio stations and came upon one of the recent songs by the band Coldplay, “Adventure Of A Lifetime,” which has an intriguing and thought … Continue reading →

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If We Loved One Another

Posted on December 19, 2015 by nathanalbright

From time to time at church we sing a particular hymn that has never failed to move me. The hymn is probably familiar only to the relatively small church culture from which I come, but I have long pondered its … Continue reading →

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