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The Golden Days of Funeral Protesting are Over
Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas (don’t click on that link if you consider yourself a sensitive person), the church of funeral protesting infamy, is soon to taste its own medicine. After the...
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>Pornography and Religion
>Religion takes a lot of heat. I just want to say that religion in and of itself is not a bad thing. It becomes bad when RELIGION = A SET OF RULES. Generally (in this article especially), when I...
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Technomads Like to Quilt: A Sociological Look at Today’s Culture
Pluralism is so 1950s. Sociological pluralism assumes boundaries and solidified tribes. In the 1950s and before, there was an identification with specific groups, at the exclusion of other groups. For...
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Sacred Questions
>Questions become sacred when they don’t have a simple answer or maybe no answer at all. Or, they become sacred when the answer is like a river. The answer may have a name, but the makeup of the...
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Hipsters and Amish
>Yesterday I went to Wal-Mart to buy myself and my lady some workout accessories for the P90X adventure we’re about to embark on. As I walked through the sliding doors, I nodded to the greeter and...
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What to Do with a Used Toilet?
I hate it when people litter. It really ticks me off. And what really makes me mad is when people litter used toilets. According to the New York Times, a Milk Carton takes about 5 years to...
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Remembering Holy Saturday: The Day We Embrace Doubt and Silence
Doubt and silence play a major role in the history of the Church; a role, that for the most part, has been written out of the Protestant and evangelical story. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the...
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Defining Postmoderism and Easing My Mother’s Anger
My mom reads my blog. I think that’s cool. The other week she told me that she got mad at me when she read in a previous post of mine where I said, “I’ll go so far as to say – at least propositionally...
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“Why White People Love the Beach” by Sigmund Freud
Most of my black friends aren’t too keen on hitting the sand and the waves … but my white friends will spend two grand to give themselves a week of sandy underpants, bad sunburns and an extra five...
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Worshiping God through Our Sorrow
Van Gogh's "Old Man in Sorrow." It's interesting that the posture of sorrow is similar to a posture of worship. Few Christians are familiar with the term “orthopathos.” We’re familiar with orthodoxy,...
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