United States
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Why Sarah Palin is Right About Baptism by Waterboarding — #AmericanBaptism A must read post about the real torture of people versus imagined, metaphorical torture of concepts.
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When Torture Became Conventional
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5 min read
Last fall, The Walking Dead had its inevitable torture episode. It wasn’t surprising from a show that is so gleefully violent and revels in the dark recesses of the human psyche. As the story arc progressed, it became only a matter of time before one human would torture another. There was always something truly inevitable…
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A Real Story About Voter Fraud
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3 min read
Eight years ago, I was commuting to seminary. My official home was with my parents in Midland. My wife (then fiance) lived across town. I drove back on Election Day to vote. Rose went with us to my polling place and I went with her to hers. I was fired up to vote. I arrived home…
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Web On Strike Tomorrow!
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1 min read
Tomorrow is the official day of the global strike to help prevent Congress and the Senate from passing SOPA and PIPA, two bills intending to deal with privacy, but would instead, grant incredible power to corporations to not only sue, but completely remove sites from the web for what they decide is copyright infringement. For…
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Oh, How We Need The Dream
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4 min read
A year and a half ago, I wrote a post about “the dream speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr. In it, I wrote the following: …I will share how I, living in the country transformed by this moment, still respond to Dr. King’s words. When Dr. King says, toward the opening of the famous “I…
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(Dis)order and Witness
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3 min read
Since the Occupy protests began, I’ve been struggling with what is so objectionable to so many people about protest. Perhaps I am as pinko as my former rector, Matt+ says I am, but I’ve never found protest in itself to be ugly. Between my own limited experience and the research I’ve done, criticisms of protests of…