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#672.

!Cat Scraptacular!

That’s what I would have named the cat scrapbooking magazine that someone I worked with once printed off the color copiers at our office.

I don’t have any proof that they were actually running a feline focused publication from within our office, but based on how many kitten photos and full color scrapbooking pages I found on our work printer, I have to assume that’s what was going on.

That’s not a great thing to do at your place of employment, but before I judge that lady, I have to remember which one of us was asked to leave that company.

I was …

Giving satan a free pass.

Dec 10th by Jon
#666.

I don’t know if hell has a PR department, but if they do, they’ve done a bang up job of getting satan worked out of the modern Christian vernacular.

I didn’t realize this until recently. In my attempts to be a relevant, culturally aware, cool Christian, I’ve virtually eliminated any mention of satan from my conversations. I’ll talk all day about building community or how to use social media to grow social justice, but satan? That guy gets a free pass.

In almost 700 posts on Stuff Christians Like I’ve only mentioned him seriously maybe 5 times. Here are the posts I’ve written that really reference him …

Not recognizing our cars.

Nov 25th by Jon
#659.

It’s always good to have a friend who is a cop and I’m excited to say I just met one. His daughter goes to kindergarten with mine and we walked around together on Halloween night. I peppered him with the kind of questions a 7-year old boy would ask McGruff the crime dog but he humored me. And then, he told me something a little surprising …

International drug cartels use caravans of different cars to run drugs through Georgia.

I read about that in article but secretly hoped the organizational savvy of cartels that are now using a Wal-Mart approach to outsourcing their crimes was exaggerated. He assured me it was not. Here’s how it works:

When a drug cartel is going to drive drugs up from Miami or Texas, they use three different cars …