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Summer of Love

Summer of Love

Since the World Cup ended, we canceled our cable and have spent this last month of the summer catching up on movies and documentaries on DVD. It turns out that the library has a lot more going for it than I had remembered, and not just the fetching book restocking gals. So the majority of [...]

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice Outs Herself from Christianity

This week, Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice officially outed herself from Christianity. Naturally, she did so via her Facebook wall. Here is the text of her post: “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian … It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this [...]

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Gaps… Gotta Love ‘em!

Gaps… Gotta Love ‘em!

Gaps. I’ve learned to treasure them. We all know that gaps are out there.. We’ve all read, seen, heard, and told stories with gaps-a-plenty. It’s kind of like Indiana Jones spelling the name of God with his feet, in an effort to save his father. It’s sort of like Alice hopping from mushroom to mushroom, [...]

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Atheists… who needs them?

With a title like this, you may think that I’m out to stir up trouble. And you’re right, but it’s a real question that seems to have various answers in various contexts. I’ve been wondering a lot lately about what feelings a religious person might have towards someone who is either staunchly or passively anti-religious. [...]

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Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST

Love is Blind: From an Aficionado of LOST

Every wannabe wordsmith has a shoehorn in the toolbelt I often get my words confused. I am prone to becoming drunk with the potential power that the right words can provide to the right prose. Communication is all about pictures, and the emotions that those pictures bring to us. If a word creates a certain [...]

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Landon Donovan’s Redemption is at Hand

Landon Donovan’s Redemption is at Hand

“…the ball fell to me, and time kinda stopped…” These words were Landon Donovan’s response just minutes after scoring the most clutch goal in United States Men’s National Team soccer history at the 2010 World Cup.  Donovan’s last minute goal against Algeria was the difference between his team going home, or going on.  It turn [...]

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