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Why is bad meat cheap?
Walking toward the back of Kroger to buy some ground beef, one notices very quickly that the expensive stuff is on the left and degrades as you move to the right. On the far left is Laura’s Lean Beef. It is organic and farm-raised, and 93% fat free. It is $5.49 per pound. To it’s…
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Priorities
Where I live, people don’t think too highly of rules. If you don’t believe me, sit at any intersection and wait. It won’t take long to watch someone run a red light. It could also explain why the region is so conservative protestant. Hate on the rules and the government is the norm. But like…
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playing cards
As I climbed into the car, my daughter told me that she and her Nana were “playing cards” in the backseat. After a minute, I realized it was a modified version of “Go Fish”. “Do you have some 2’s?” she asks her Nana as I pull out of the parking lot. “Sophia, do you have…
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Power to the People (Women’s Rights Remix)
Power to the People “Turn it up! Turn it up! Power to the people, y’all!” –Public Enemy, Power to the People By now you have heard of the class-action suit against Wal-Mart and this week’s decision by the Supreme Court to throw out the case. The case made news in two very important ways. First,…
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Violence is not a given
I used to play over 30 hours of video games per week, so as a former gamer, the recent Supreme Court decision overturning a California ban on violent video games on free-speech grounds makes me happy. I’m predisposed to supporting a maligned and misunderstood industry. However, it is how the industry won that is deeply…
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The Gut-Ball of Frustration
Phone interviews are different when you are at home most of the day. In the Episcopal Church, our process of discerning a call to ministry in a congregation has several steps. You put all of your info online, answering a bunch of questions. Then contact is made, either presbyter to congregation, presbyter to diocese, congregation…
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Parking Lot Interview
This was a first. I was standing in a Holiday Inn parking lot, talking to a search committee, with the signal dropping at random times on my end while my daughter was upstairs, reading books with my parents as I try like mad to sound both passionate about ministry and completely rational. And I just…
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Hearing Jesus: my manifesto
The most profound thing Jesus ever taught wasn’t something he said. It is something he did. He split his time with his followers and took on a different posture for each group. And of course, there are three groups: The Needy Jesus gave his greatest gifts to those most in need of it: his time,…