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Peyton Manning: that savior?
While doing my annual obsessive consumption of the NFL Draft, I came across this interesting article about the new Denver Bronco, Peyton Manning’s role as mentor to the rookie quarterback the team just drafted. What struck me while reading it is the tone of the second half of the article: Manning is in Denver to win,…
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An Overly Simplistic Description of Race in America
Considering all the overblown rhetoric about how post-racial we’re supposed to be, I thought a short description of how post-racial we actually are, and how post-racial we could be, might be useful. Our society is post-racial We actually do live in a post-racial society, if by society we actually mean culture. The pervading culture is…
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The Postmodern Condition: Blame Must Be Shared
I watched a TED Talk a couple weeks ago that included a simple picture. The speaker began talking about distraction, because the picture, like the one I’ve provided below, demonstrated what he meant about distraction. The original picture was of a Dad at the park and he was playing with his smart phone while the…
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Restore the “Vagina”!
Restore the “Vagina”!. Rachel Held Evans can’t write “vagina”? Oh! She can write it, but Thomas Nelson won’t publish it. Wait a second. Why not? Oh! Because some Christians might be offended by it. Wait a second. Why? I should have known. The human body is freeky and gross. That sort of makes sense. It’s…
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I Just Broke 300!
Because this post is 301. Damn, missed another milestone. It seems as ifI did this before…
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Whites Need to Write About Trayvon Martin
Whites Need to Write About Trayvon MartinA solid article about the need for a “race case” to be handled by all people as a justice case, rather than delegated to the African American in the room. The killing of a young man and the lack of urgency in the police response is unconscionable and beyond the…
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Simple Things Are Bad For You
Simple foods really are bad for us. Nutritionally, they are too easily digested, which is actually a bad thing most of the time. Heavily processed and enriched grains and sugar go through our systems inefficiently and cause us to consume even more of them. Complex foods like raw broccoli, whole grains, and proteins, are healthier.…
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Throw Your Process Off a Bridge
It has become clear that we are in an age in which process and system are colliding. Our institutions aren’t failing because they are institutions (and our government isn’t failing simply because it is government). They fail because the process is obstructing the system. What I mean by process and system are simply the difference…