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Eric Blauer

I am Frederick Christian Blauer IV, but I go by Eric, it sounds less like a megalomaniac but still hints at my Scandinavian destiny of coastal conquest and ultimate rule. I have accumulated a fair number of titles: son, brother, husband, father, pastor, writer, artist and a few other more colorful titles by my fanged fans. I am a lover of story be it heard, read or watched in all beauty, gory or glory. I write and speak as an exorcist or poltergeist, splashing holy water, spilling wine and breaking bread between the apocalypse and a sleeping baby. I am possessed by too many words and they get driven out like wild pigs and into the waters of my blog at www.fcb4.tumblr.com. I work as a pastor at Jacob's Well Church (www.jacobswellspokane.com) across the tracks on 'that' side of town. I follow Christ in East Central Spokane among saints, sinners, angels, demons, crime, condoms, chaos, beauty, goodness and powerful weakness. I have more questions than answers, grey hairs than brown, fat than muscle, fire than fireplace and experience more love from my wife, family and friends than a man should be blessed with in one lifetime.

Marriage and the wayward heart of a spouse

Scripture is clear that love is a life shaking, shaping, framing reality that can open graves and lay waste the cosmos in recreative power.

New Year’s Narcissism

The older I get the more New Year’s resolutions look and sound more like the reflections of Narcissus in the pool of self worship.

Their Blood Still Cries Out: A defense of executive action on gun violence

By Eric Blauer  “How can your empty clichés comfort me?     All your explanations are lies!” -The seventh Speech of Job 21:34 I think of this...

Is God our Adversary or Advocate?

The desire to understand what is going on in our lives and why the God we thought we knew collide

I don’t want Princess Leia in a bikini

There is nothing wrong with beauty, just the misrepresentation of what it truly is, the real truth is that a beautiful woman is made, not born.

My 10 Rules of Online Engagement for the Pious Pugilist

You don't have to respond. (Especially to adversarial, rude, demeaning people. If you wrestle with pigs, you both end up smelling like dung.)

Christ isn’t just for the Creche: Why the war on Christmas is about more than coffee cups

Lately the issue for some people on Facebook and social media is Starbuck’s choice to remove the word Christmas from their holiday cups.

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