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Category Archives: Current Affairs
Backyard chickens and government interference
I’ve spent a great deal of time lately researching chickens, finding plans for a great chicken ark (visit catawbacoops.com to see what I’m going to build), and generally becoming a little obsessed, but hey, I like my eggs.
So it was much to my dismay to find out about the NAIS (National Animal Identification System) that [...]
Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy
Some of you may have already seen the youtube video of the comedian Louis CK on Conan. If not, it’s worth taking a look at. So funny. And so true. I particularly like the part where he’s telling the story of being on an airplane that was trying the new internet inflight. He was happy, [...]
Also posted in Culture, Theology and Culture Tagged consumerism, economic crisis, Louis CK, Theology and Culture 1 Comment
Pride and the economic crisis
I was just reading a lecture by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he addresses the roots of the economic crisis. He puts aside the prevelant idea that greed on a massive scale is enough of an explanation for the situation we have gotten ourselves into. Rather, he thinks it goes deeper:
Acquisitiveness is, in [...]
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 9/9)
The culture’s message represents such a pulling on girls toward all things outward and not things inward that if we as the church are going to help girls understand themselves as spiritual, we need to help them point inward. We must resist the urge to harp on the external without connecting it to the [...]
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 8/9)
I recently had coffee with a couple of high-school girls, sisters, one a senior and one a sophomore. I asked them about their transition into middle school from grade school, specifically, if that had affected their relationships with boys at all. The sophomore said “Yeah, like, you couldn’t just be friends and hang [...]
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 7/9)
I have two friends who happen to have won the “body lottery” if you will, at least by today’s standards. They are tall, blond, blue eyed, slender and toned-looking, straighter as opposed to curvier, and both of them are awesome women. Both of them have related how other girls and women have often [...]
Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 6/9)
In Perfect Girl, Starving Daughter, the author relates a story of a girl named Jen, a self-described free-spirit who liked to sleep around, and in high school had managed to maintain the link between her sleeping around and her free-spiritedness, at least in her own mind, without succumbing to the caricature of a “slut.” [...]
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