Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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The Beast Doesn’t Need to Speak
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5 min read
It is easy for the guy on the top of the pyramid to demand that the ones at the bottom do their jobs. To him, it is irrelevant that his job is actually to carry a football and get the snot beat out of him. That the “other duties as assigned” include ridiculous press conferences full of…
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No Merit In a Massacre
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3 min read
Word that some 2,000 people were massacred this weekend in Nigeria by Boko Haram, has been slow-moving. Perhaps it is not as stunning to us to imagine Africans killed on a giant scale than a dozen Parisians. I won’t judge. Two unrelated tragedies that are both disturbing. What struck me was this quote District head Baba…
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How to Make a New Year’s Resolution Stick
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6 min read
Yesterday, I wrote a bummer of a piece telling you that you would most certainly fail. That great New Year’s resolution to lose weight or not eat chocolate? Sorry. You’ve already failed, you just might not know it yet. And that resolution to read everyday, that’s hanging by a thread. That was yesterday. Today I’m…
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How To Not Change the World
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7 min read
Our Willful Ignorance of Self I once read that Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols approaches his day with this simple practice: he only looks in the mirror once. He gets up, prepares himself for the day, and spends the rest of the day believing he’s that guy in the mirror. Regardless of what life throws…
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What Every Christian Should Know About Torture
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4 min read
Torture Isn’t Actually Partisan It takes a certain level of what Pope Francis calls “spiritual Alzheimers” for Christians to think torture is acceptable. In any circumstance. I’m willing to give us some level of forgiveness for our confusion in the closing months of 2001, when the country, and particularly the government, was searching for ways to respond…