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Feb.19.2013 The Phil Naessens Show February 18, 2013: The NY Knicks and Author Debbie Wilson On Mondays Phil Naessens Show Breaking The Backboards Brent Kitchin joins Phil to discuss all the highs and lows of last weeks NY Knicks action and author Debbie Wilson stops by to discuss her faith based true crime memoir Sweet Scent of Justice. To download this program to a portable...	Oct.20.2012 Why I Am a Christian Democrat... I’m reprinting below an article written by Ellen Painter Dollar and first printed at www.patheos.com. It explains my own heart, is written fairly, and is about as close to the heart of Jesus’ teaching and the political challenges we face as anything I’ve read lately. I gladly share it with...
Oct.10.2012 Also a Gift October 10 ALSO A GIFT Sadness is as life affirming as joy, but in the same way that people eat together but defecate alone, joy is encouraged in public and sadness is a private matter. Happiness is embraced and discouragement relegated, even though personal...	Sep.11.2012 Flip the question I've heard of Christians, conservatives and Republicans all called "closet homosexuals" or "closet racists" or "closet bigots" -- fill in the word -- misogynists, extremists, radicals. Why do they never accuse someone of being a "closet Christian"? Clearly the accusations above are to lead the...
Apr.25.2012 On Getting One's Hopes Up Did you notice that I changed the tagline on my website to “Here to get your hopes up”? It used to say “Pleasure & Purpose. Aligned,” which is a motto I still like, but the new sentiment has definitely taken precedence. I’ve given some talks lately in which hope and fear figure...	Jul.06.2011 Casey Anthony--Not Guilty Photo: Caylee Anthony First of all, for full disclosure: I didn't watch most of the trial, and most of what I have to say has to do with the little I did watch, and what was in the papers. (I try not to pay attention to the talking heads; I admit that the papers are often not much...
Jan.15.2011 Hamburger Industrial Complex The largest bureaucracy in our US government is the Department of Defense or DOD. The second largest bureaucracy in our government is the US Department of Veteran Affairs which is actually a wholely owned subsidiary of the DOD. These two bureaucracies are where the tax money goes in America....	Jan.21.2010 The Disappointment System My friends tend to a few views of President Obama and the Democrats at the end of Year One. They seem different, but actually, all are part of the Disappointment System, my new name for the combination plate of hurt and response which has become our national dish. As is so often the case, what we...
Jul.29.2009 "What was a misstep that you (or your publisher) made with publishing your first book--and how would you do things differently i Victor Volkman of Loving Healing Press published my first book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse in paperback. He has now decided he wants to release it in hardcover in September. I wish that we had done it in hardcover to begin with. Victor states...