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Read MoreI had become a pretty good liar. More on that in a minute. See, I had just come back to Christianity from a three-year hiatus after my dad died when I was 13.
I like life hacks — those lists of clever ways to get around life’s little annoyances. You see them in your news feed or in the nifty two-minute packages at the end of your favorite newscast.
For people in their Young Adults in DFW, it’s normal to be a Christian. In fact, for many, it’s normal for faith and spirituality to be an incredibly important part of their lives. Thing is, it’s not normal to talk about it.
In the summer months of 2001, a five-year-old boy named Enel Previl was brought by his family to a local church. His parents had been told that by doing so, the boy’s photo would be taken and perhaps with the help of some foreign friends, the school could pay its teachers for the coming year.
So I’m reading straight through the Bible this year, which is all fun and games as long as you’ve got miracles and floods and plagues and such. But then you get to Leviticus and the bottom falls out. Leviticus is where Bible reading plans go to die.