Category: Blog

 It arrived in the mail, a gift from my wife’s cousin, who found it while sifting through their aunt’s keepsakes–a bulletin from the First Christian

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Shanah Tova!

I like a clean desk, and today is a clean desk kind of day. A day when you take all the piles—the books and folders

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The Good News of Social Media

Confession: I love social media. I am tired of people berating social media and proclaiming that it is the downfall of personal interaction. I just

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Opportunities

If you are someone who is instantly turned off by the kind of blog (or any kind of writing) whose premise is along the lines

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Why “42” Left Me Flat

  Thanks to Redbox, I finally saw 42, Brian Helgeland’s feel good story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s “color line.”  What’s not to like? With

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sacrificing virgins

In the Southpark episode “Britney’s New Look” Stan, Cartman, Kyle, and Butters decide to make some money by snapping a photograph of Britney Spears who

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King’s Mountaintop, Our Valley

I know I promised to finish up some reflections on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvinism this week, but yesterday’s 50th-anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King’s

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Sin U

Jennifer L. Holberg will be away from the blog for several weeks. Her replacement is T. Jefferson Underhill. Underhill, thinking about a career change, is

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