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“The Social Animal”
“The Greeks used to say we suffer our way to wisdom.” (David Brooks, “The Social Animal”)
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Where Healing Dwells
Mark Chapter 2 has a series of stories that I think are summed up in Jesus’ little story of wineskins and new cloths: 21 “No one sews a piece of new, unshrunk cloth on old clothes; otherwise, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and makes a worse tear. 22 No one pours new wine into…
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Is it really time for civil disobedience?
The issue in the last couple of weeks with the Obama administration and the Catholic church has been over healthcare policy and contraception. Originally, the Obama administration was going to enforce the policy that any organization over a certain size had to provide a health insurance policy for employees, including the option for contraception. This would apply even to religious…
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Consider These Numbers
The Super Bowl last week garnered a record number of viewers in the U.S. : 111.3 million. Hundreds of players in the NFL train year round for the opportunity to square off on television’s biggest stage. Only two teams and few dozen players will make that stage. One team walks off the LOSER. But they train like maniacs for months…
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It’s a FOOTBALL GAME
They play a football game, but when it is the Super Bowl somehow every commercial, every song, is a political statement or a controversy. Somewhere in the distant last sports used to be about the love of the game.
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Bowing to the Beast
Since the Susan G Komen Foundation bowed to the beast of our culture, which is represented in this case by Planned Parenthood, all is well once again in our world. Here is what we learn: do not poke the bear. But poke we must. Christianity Today takes it on here. Some pointed words: In all of this, though, we can…
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Abortion
I work hard to stay away from what may seem to be “political” statements on my blog. Facebook is different. Yet, the whole blow up this week with Planned Parenthood and the Susan G. Komen Foundation has so crushed my spirit, I am going to take that risk. I repent for not remembering Pro-Life Sunday (as well as MLK Sunday).…
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The Rage Against Religion While Thinking You Are Spiritual
David Brooks is one of my favorite columnists. He hits it out of the ballpark again on THIS COLUMN. He took the viral video of the guy raging against religion and got into the why, and then the results of the video. Challenged with the exact words of the video, the young man actually realized he needed to learn to…
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Roe v. Wade
To my shame I did not mention the passing of the date that commemorates Roe vs. Wade. In fact, we rarely mention it at all anymore. This article from ten years ago highlights we may have been bored of this for quite some time. Getting past the issue of “unwanted pregnancies,” or “endangering the life of the mother,” when I think…
Category: Culture
