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To Be Earned

I fondly remember when my oldest daughter Sami was a toddler and just starting to read. She would sit in my lap with a book, open it up to a random page and point to a word. I would ask her, “What does that word say?” Her adorable little toddler finger would trace the writing […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Apologetics Creativity Faith Personal Theology

A Party for a Book

We threw a party for a book, and boy was it fun. My first book, Torahism: Are Christians Required to Keep the Law of Moses? was released on Williamson College Press on November 5, 2019. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a wonderful evening at Williamson College in Franklin, […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Personal Philosophy

An Open Letter to My Wife on Our Anniversary

Dear Deb, I have a confession to make. I didn’t know what I was doing on June 11, 1991, when I asked you to marry me. I hadn’t thought things through. I didn’t consult a list to see if you “checked all the boxes,” or consider how I was going to support us. I just […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoJuly 3, 2021

Faith Personal Philosophy

Comfort v. Truth

In a recent conversation with a beloved family member the topic turned to religion and the different things people believe. I told him I’d recently enrolled in classes at a seminary and was planning to pursue a master’s degree in theology. After explaining the path that led me to this decision he replied that he […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity Personal Philosophy

My Junkyard

I have generated a rather big junkyard over the course of my life. It’s something I started on back in the early 1980’s and have been adding to ever since. My impressive scrapheap now covers many square miles and is packed with rusted-out vehicles that have all reached the end of their lives. Some are […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity Music & Art Personal

The Year in Between

What happened between the making of these two videos? A little over a year ago I was hired as a UX Designer by a healthcare company that had just merged with another company. They were having a big “Are You Ready?” promotional campaign for the unveiling of the new company name and held a contest […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Personal

The Dawning of a Power Outage

In modern society, the use of electricity has so permeated our everyday existence that we have no paradigm for life without it. To wit, my fatuous thought process the last time we experienced a power outage due to a storm. I was watching TV when suddenly the world around me was plunged into darkness and […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Creativity Music & Art Personal

On Playing To Play

I wrote some simple piano chord diagrams for my daughter Maggie and she spent three hours playing the piano yesterday. She’s a natural. She inspired me to want to play just for the enjoyment of playing. The thing I love about music is you don’t even have to be very good to get lost in it. […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years agoNovember 21, 2020