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Brock Heasley

“author, artist, occasional sleeper”

Category Archives: Faith

May 31, 2012 The Oncoming Train

A man stands in the middle of a desert road. Behind him, where there is no horizon, the road stretches off into the infinite. In front of him it is the same, save for a wide crack in the road. The man looks down into the crack. He sees nothing but darkness. He finds a [...]

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May 22, 2012 Sex vs. Violence

WARNING: This blog contains adult content. Been seeing this quote going around, attributed to author George RR Martin (writer, Game of Thrones): “It’s a uniquely American prudishness. You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly [...]

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May 8, 2012 At the Crossroads and Frustrated

You may have noticed I haven’t been exactly present on this site for the past week. Some great comments were left on my post Should Adults Wear Shorts? and I didn’t respond to any of them. (Just so you know, message received: wear shorts, stop being a jerk about it.) I’m not totally sure why I didn’t [...]

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January 10, 2012 The Very Bad Year (That Ended Pretty Well)

In my Church, on the first Sunday of every month, it’s open mic service. We call it “Testimony Meeting,” but, really, you can get up and say just about anything. It can get scary. The point is to bear witness of Christ and your faith in him, but sometimes people find a way to tie [...]

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November 16, 2011 Giving Not-So-Freely

There’s a gas station on my way home from work where, 90% of the time I go there, someone asks me for money. Yesterday, it happened again. This time, I was the only one at the pumps The old black man in a wheelchair and army jacket was far away, up against the outer wall [...]

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