Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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City With No Children
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1 min read
I’ve loved this song from the moment it first came through the car’s speakers. From Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, it speaks of desperation and the isolation, trapped feel of that location. Beautifully haunting, youthful, aging, wistful and anguished. Pure pop genius. It has lingered lately. That sense expanded beyond the suburbs, to the country, the continent.…
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What’s Religion Got To Do With It? Everything.
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7 min read
We are having a massive, global communication problem. All because we can’t agree on what the word “religion” really means. ISIS and Religion It shouldn’t be that hard to describe a group’s religiosity. ISIS or ISIL is a group, founded in a religious ideology. That is true at its most basic level. It is composed of religious…
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If ISIS Were Christian
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4 min read
Imagine if a random dude one day declares that he is the pope. This man isn’t completely random, perhaps. He’s got friends. He’s connected. Of course those connections aren’t Roman Catholic. He’s a member of the Army of God. He’s an activist. He’s proudly helped shut down clinics. He claims credit for radicalizing a young man…
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Weaning From Outrage
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7 min read
As I drove north, along I-70 into Indianapolis, then taking I-69 all the way up to the wilds of the back roads north of Lansing, I listened to podcast after podcast. It was a time to catch up on the backlog, and it seems that a trio of shows has cultivated a moment, a sense…
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Why Bernie Sanders hates the media
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4 min read
Does Sen. Bernie Sanders hate the media? According to Paul Heintz, the political editor for Seven Days, the answer is yes. In this interview for On the Media, Heintz shows Sen. Sanders’ penchant for calling out the media and his ongoing distrust of it. He argues that “the media have never really noticed how Sanders sees them. Because…
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Why the GOP should shift its position on guns
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3 min read
The broken record we’re playing is getting old and the country we all value is disappearing to the point in which our 2 major parties are both sloganeering that we must “take our country back” from the other. Why has this point been missed by so many? That both of our major parties feel disempowered?…