Donny’s Ramblings: Diary of a Former Porn Producer

To me, Halloween 2006 is:

My brother’s 30th Birthday
A great opportunity to spend a fun night with my son, watching him wander his neighborhood in a really cute penguin costume, overcoming his shyness and knocking on doors because that candy reward is SOOO worth it, dad!

Growing up in Pentecostal churches, I heard all of the [...]

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Indulge me as I give a rebellious outsider’s view of one of the reasons why so many people are turned off to God due to his beloved Saints. I’ll call this “What I’ve Learned About God From Watching Christians.” You may find such ramblings to be petty, but judging from the title of [...]

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Last Sunday I met a couple from Pennsylvania, John and Kristi, who had come to town on vacation. A quadriplegic friend of mine asked me to drive her to church so they could pray for her. It wasn’t long ago that Kristi herself was in a wheelchair, unable to walk. She believes [...]

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The Drew Marshall Show, billed as “Canada’s Most Listened To Spiritual Talkback Program”, interviewed me live on the radio on October 21st. Today they finally released the recording of the show on their website. Click here to listen to it. You can stream it off the website on that page, or download [...]

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Just a quick note:
Growing up a Pastor’s son, I was expected to win Bible quizzes. That being the case, I memorized and studied a lot of scripture. It always bored me. I loved winning Bible knowledge contests, but talking about the Bible, for the most part, bored me almost to tears. [...]

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I am SOOOOOO not looking forward to having a boss again. I have a problem answering to other people. It just gets way down deep under my skin to have another person telling me what to do all the time. I guess it’s time for Donny to learn some valuable lessons, one [...]

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Today is exactly one month since “the surrender”. It really feels like much longer than that.
My ex-wife has always been a Christian. I’ve mentioned that before. As such, she has always taken my son to church. I’m telling you this so that I can now make sense of the title for you. [...]

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Thank you so much for your email this morning. I took your advice and purchased Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. I’ve begun reading it already. In fact, I just stopped reading at the beginning of Chapter 5 because I was so excited I had to stop to write to you, and since [...]

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Really quickly I’d like to tell you, Constant Reader, that Playboy doesn’t produce hardcore porn. Their subsidiaries, which the company completely owns in their entirety, produce all of the hardcore titles.
Yes, I find this as silly as you do, but a clarification request was made. Playboy wants to keep the bunny image as softcore. [...]

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Since surrendering my life to God on September 25th, 2006, I have received so much advice from other people that it’s almost overwhelming. Several different books have been recommended. In response to all of those recommendations I have:
Not read a single one of them!
Why not? Because the number is so large I have [...]

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