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Fairly Spiritual: Saying goodbye to good friends, warm...
By Doug Bursch • February 19, 2009 3:00 pm

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Fairly Spiritual: Celebrating 8 years of grace and love
Fairly Spiritual: Celebrating 8 years of grace and...
By Doug Bursch • February 11, 2009 7:30 pm

It is truly a humbling privilege to be the senior pastor of Evergreen Foursquare Church. Eight years ago to this…

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Fairly Spiritual: The end is near with Starbucks struggling
Fairly Spiritual: The end is near with Starbucks...
By Doug Bursch • February 4, 2009 8:21 pm

Starbucks is struggling financially, and this has me a bit unnerved. I’m not an end times expert, but a Starbucks…

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Fairly Spiritual: Regretfully unable to remember my regrets
Fairly Spiritual: Regretfully unable to remember my regrets
By Doug Bursch • January 29, 2009 2:41 pm

I have a very bad memory … which helps me with very bad memories. However, I’m not able to recall…

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Fairly Spiritual: Writing out my insecurities
Fairly Spiritual: Writing out my insecurities
By Doug Bursch • January 22, 2009 2:12 pm

I’m an insecure person who has the unfortunate habit of saying everything that comes to my mind. This has caused…

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Fairly Spiritual: In King County, calories count
Fairly Spiritual: In King County, calories count
By Doug Bursch • January 14, 2009 7:19 pm

In theory, I support King County’s new regulation requiring caloric counts to be clearly displayed on restaurant menus. In practice,…

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Fairly Spiritual: Living in the ever gray state
Fairly Spiritual: Living in the ever gray state
By Doug Bursch • January 7, 2009 9:02 pm

If you’ve lived through at least one Northwest winter, you’ve confronted the concept of gray. Gray usually hits me when…

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Fairly Spiritual: Facing the new year with overwhelming resolve
Fairly Spiritual: Facing the new year with overwhelming...
By Doug Bursch • December 31, 2008 2:02 pm

Lose weight, exercise, eat better, reduce your carbon footprint, read your Bible, pray more, work harder, watch less television, control…

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Fairly Spiritual: Last chance to redeem ’08
Fairly Spiritual: Last chance to redeem ’08
By Doug Bursch • December 23, 2008 11:28 pm

You have five days to finish your 2008 to-do list. In retrospect, your goals might have been a bit ambitious….

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Fairly Spiritual: Declaring a war on fruitcake
Fairly Spiritual: Declaring a war on fruitcake
By Doug Bursch • December 11, 2008 4:29 pm

It appears the “War on Christmas” has reached a stalemate. With all sides thoroughly entrenched, I would like to plead…

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Fairly Spiritual: This Christmas, aim low
Fairly Spiritual: This Christmas, aim low
By Doug Bursch • November 26, 2008 2:09 pm

Sometimes, I think we try too hard to make everything meaningful and heartfelt. This is particularly true of the holiday season.
Yes, Christmas is definitely a great time to focus on the nobler virtues of existence. However, my lofty goal to make this “the best Christmas ever” might actually detract from the pursuit of more practical objectives. In other words, I am sometimes so busy reaching for the stars that I forget to grab hold of that which is within my grasp. Some of life’s most worthy tasks are in fact … do-able. Unfortunately, some of life’s most worthy tasks also are rather boring.

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Fairly Spiritual: Real challenge is nurturing true love
Fairly Spiritual: Real challenge is nurturing true love
By Doug Bursch • November 20, 2008 4:05 pm

It has been reported that a Texas reverend, Ed Young, recently asked his mega church congregation to participate in a…

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Fairly Spiritual: Christmas is a big bully, just ask Thanksgiving
Fairly Spiritual: Christmas is a big bully, just...
By Doug Bursch • November 13, 2008 5:18 pm

Once again, it’s that glorious time of year when I complain about how ridiculously early we start celebrating Christmas. Even…

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Fairly Spiritual: Christmas is a big bully, just ask Thanksgiving
Fairly Spiritual: Christmas is a big bully, just...
By Doug Bursch • November 13, 2008 5:18 pm

Once again, it’s that glorious time of year when I complain about how ridiculously early we start celebrating Christmas. Even…

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Fairly Spiritual: Dealing with election withdrawals
Fairly Spiritual: Dealing with election withdrawals
By Doug Bursch • November 6, 2008 4:39 pm

It’s four days after the big election and I’m still going through campaign withdrawals. I existed so long within the…

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Fairly Spiritual: Delivering a radio show and a new motto
Fairly Spiritual: Delivering a radio show and a...
By Doug Bursch • October 30, 2008 4:09 pm

“Dream big … Fail big!” That’s my motto. Actually, I don’t have a motto but if I were ever to…

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Fairly Spiritual – No party favorites: Voting for God isn’t that easy
Fairly Spiritual – No party favorites: Voting for...
By Doug Bursch • October 24, 2008 2:00 pm

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Fairly Spiritual: Cruise provides needed break, food for thought
Fairly Spiritual: Cruise provides needed break, food for...
By Doug Bursch • October 16, 2008 5:04 pm

Last week I took an unpaid sabbatical from my column. I figured a break from my weekly writing might clear…

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Fairly Spiritual: Frustrating fruit of American politics
Fairly Spiritual: Frustrating fruit of American politics
By Doug Bursch • October 2, 2008 7:19 pm

About every four years I suffer from political seasonal affective disorder. This depression inducing affliction is caused by prolonged exposure…

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Fairly Spiritual: Confronting uncertain economic times
Fairly Spiritual: Confronting uncertain economic times
By Doug Bursch • September 25, 2008 4:29 pm

I’d love to use a roller coaster metaphor to describe our nation’s current economic turmoil. However, roller coasters have a…

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