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Burke 175, Walker 3: Exit Polling in the Inner City, Part 2
This is part 2. Part 1 is here. And so it happened that at 6:45 a.m., Madam Election Official (I’m chagrined to say I never got her name) understandably didn’t have time to deal with a superfluous exit pollster like me. She was busy setting up voting machines and organizing her team, and when I Continue reading
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Exit Pollster in the Inner City – My Election Day Story
I’ll bet my Election Day was more interesting than yours: while you were busy going to work and voting (of course!), I was hanging out in the inner city of Milwaukee as an exit pollster. Here’s my story: Two years ago I began my second career surveying exiting voters in Madison for Edison Research. Edison is the national organization that Continue reading
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How to Find Restoration in the Midst of a Broken Life
“Rog, we’ve decided not to send you to the Philippines. We wanted to send someone who was actually…walking with God.” The words of my Navigator leader Dave Ostendorf stung pretty deeply. Had it really come to this? My good friend Carl Bergstrom and I had been slated to be summer missionaries to the Philippines in Continue reading
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This Should Be Obvious
It was a few years ago that my son Josh and I read a trilogy of books by Ted Dekker. In the mythical universe of Black, Red and White, mankind is divided into two groups. One group follows the God Elyon and the other group rejects him outright. They will not worship him or follow Continue reading
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The Two Great Lies of Satan
According to Jesus in John 8:44, Satan is a “liar and the father of lies,” and I think he tells two whoppers with amazing regularity. First, Satan steadily whispers to non-believers: “Things are honky – dory between you and God.” This is a lie, of course, because they are under His wrath for their sin. (…whoever does Continue reading
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Letter of Thanks to My Godly Aunt on Her 80th Birthday
(from mid March) Dear Aunt Ruth, I wish I could be with you at the celebration today, but this brief note will have to do. It was really great being with you and yours at the wedding last year and I would have loved a repeat. Maybe next year, huh? I’ll get around to the Continue reading
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God’s Favorite on Super Bowl Sunday
I rooted for the 49ers on Sunday. Not real hard, mind you, but I kind of like this crafty Colin character and I didn’t know anything about Seattle except that they wouldn’t sell tickets to 49er fans…or something. I don’t have time to get to the bottom of these rumors; it’s more enjoyable to be Continue reading
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The End of Christmas
The Christmas tree has been mocking me as I pass it daily in the living room, even starting to give off a strong evergreen smell in recent days, which seems weird. Anyway, it’s my day off, and so we took some time over lunch to start the job of putting away ornaments and lights – Continue reading
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As Wise as Ever After 84 Years
We had quite a celebration this past Friday night. Mom turned 84. Annie was out of town, but the rest of us made big plans to take the birthday girl to Culvers where she enjoys Root beer and cheeseburgers. I knew the frigid temperature and biting wind could be a factor in our scheme, but Continue reading
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