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  1. N

    Have been lost my whole life.

    Hello forum, I am 44 years old and in a worse situation than I have been in in my entire life. I was raised in the baptist church and made a public profession of faith at 8 years old out of fear of going to hell, not because I "felt Jesus" or whatever people say motivates them to believe and...
  2. Bruce Leiter

    "My introduction" by Bruce Leiter

    I'm a retired pastor working on my fourth career in retirement. I was an English teacher and then a sales manager running away from God's call to be a pastor, a little like the prophet Jonah. Then, God sent me to seminary and to seven churches in twenty-seven years of ministry until he sent me...
  3. afishamongmany

    Fifty Traditional Poetry Forms - Part 3

    Links to Parts 1 and 2 - Where are You? Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2 20 - Minute Poetry The Minute Poem is a rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The...