I know the the first time I heard the phrase “my bad” I was playing basketball at church camp. I was about eleven or twelve. It was me and this older kid. We were just shooting around. I take a shot, it goes in, and he goes for it after it bounces back toward me. He takes his shot, misses, and then realizes he didn’t give me my change.

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Part 4: Issues with the List as a Formula (and what’s missing)

It’s very important to point out that the “5-step plan of Salvation” does not appear in scripture—not as a list, anyway. The scriptures themselves never group these 5 things together and present them as an ordered list of things to accomplish in order to be saved. This does not make them untrue, but rather tell us that these five steps in this particular order are not something the Holy Spirit seems to have had in mind for us to memorize in order to evangelize, or to recite as a systematic creed that defines us.
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Room 55: Radicalization, Apocalypse, and Mothers [see previous post on Conspiracies]

—I’m sorry to visit you like this, but as Thomas’s Mom you have some things to teach us about his background, why he did what he did.

—You’re here to lecture me on how his actions are my fault?

—No. But they do play a part. It’s not so much about you as what you saw in him. How he turned out.
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Ever read through those passages of Genesis, and get tired of all those people who are introduced, only to die in the next line?

“So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.”
“Jared lived a total of 962 years, and he died.”
“Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and he died.”
“Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and he died.”
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Source: To Pray, or to Politicize?

The only way I knew how to share my piclit poem.  Through wordpress.

Piclit is a creative tool for using visuals and and a word bank to create a literary poem accompanied by literal imagery.

It’s a neat thing to do in your spare time, but it’s also a great tool for easing students into composing poetry. The visual inspiration is there. A word bank is there. Students don’t have to stress over creating a poem from scratch. They can rely on a set of words and combine them in any number of ways.

I think the tool speaks for itself. I tried it in my classroom once, but I will say that it may work best with middle schoolers. It’s a good digital tool to introduce students to poetry.