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It was the summer of 1993, and I remember it like yesterday. I was an 18-year-old boy straight out of high school, and I was sitting on a bus in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. My Drill Sergeant had just boarded the bus. His uniform was crisp, and his glare was all business. It was surreal, [...]
Personal experience tells us that it costs money to buy food. And it’s also obvious that it costs more money to buy better food, the sort often labeled “organic,” “fair trade,” “free of preservatives,” and so on. A somewhat recent food trend in the latter camp is quiona (keen-wa), a Peruvian whole-grain full of amino [...]
“Dan Cathy went to his neighbor and spoke in love, and because of that he accomplished a lot more than all the buying and not buying of chicken sandwiches did last year.”
“We need poetry to speak the unspeakable, and certainly to speak for us when we find our tongues dumb and demure.”
“If a kid is prone to delinquent behavior, is that a result of listening to goth or hip-hop, or is it caused by broader socio-economic issues?”
“So as I peruse Szwarc’s portraits, I wonder in whose image these dolls are made.”
In preparing to teach my students about Jesus’ hard saying about the “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” (Mark 3:29) this week, I couldn’t help but make the connection to the recent, bizarre criticism of Evangelical efforts to end the sex-trafficking trade. What’s the charge? Well, apparently taking women and children out of the pay-for-rape game smacks [...]
All criticisms aside, let’s hope that the Force is strong with this one, and that he is able to rise to the occasion.
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