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Archives for the ‘Religion’ Category


Sac Bee’s coverage of church issues draw passionate opinions.. including mine

By M. Johnston • Dec 11th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

The Bee has been covering Christianity more and more lately. My guess is that it has something to do with the economy. Surveys reflect a rise in church attendance since the recession started. Today they ran an article maintaining how “Some Sacramento-area faithful [are] turning [their] backs on pastors [because of] spiritual abuse.”  This on [...]

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Here’s how to access the 6,500 John Muir letters UOP has published

By M. Johnston • Nov 18th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

Univ of the Pacific has posted some 6,500 letters written by John Muir. The Bee reported this today but their link was broken and they didn’t provide any insight as to how the letters could be accessed. Since I consider John Muir one of the great men of the 19th century (he is oft referred [...]

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10+ Reasons why Apple is NOT the evil empire

By M. Johnston • Sep 21st, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

A few friends and I came across some fun facts about Apple recently in the course of some research. I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but I can not resist at least entertaining some of the strange things that have come out of the apple orchard.
To start,  conspirators have referred to Bill Gates [...]

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I’m thankful for..

By M. Johnston • Aug 20th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

When I did the “I’m sick off..” post , I promised the “I’m thankful for..” post would follow. Here it is. Please feel free to join in. I’m thankful for..
1. God. Yep, I don’t know who or what I would be without Him. Luther Vandross, my favorite male vocalist, did a song called So Amazing [...]

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Local church has the Answer to North Natomas delinquency problems

By M. Johnston • Jul 2nd, 2008 | Bookmark and Share

“Dont push me, cause Im close to the edge, Im trying not to lose my head, Its like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under” – Grrandmaster Flash in “The Message”

I was over at some apartments in Regency Park (which is north of Natomas Park) off Zurlo Way yesterday [...]

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