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House Church Redux
09.27.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

My friend Eric and I have been having intramural discussions about what the church is, and how we should worship. (Read the most recent installment here.) While on some points we’ve agreed to disagree, we agree on the heart of his argument, which is the church’s great responsibility for the Matthew 25 folks, “the least […]
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Get Individualism on the Ropes
07.26.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Incharacter.org’s article about Henry David Thoreau points out the differences between Thoreau’s America and our own. They note first of all the frustration some first-time Walden readers experience. As writer Bill McKibben puts it, they see “our apostle of solitary, individual self-reliance, out in his cabin with his hoe and his beans, the most determinedly […]

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Agricultural outsourcing
Some US farms are outsourcing to Mexico, to the tune of 45000 acres (Posted 2008/5/27--0)

Are religions cultural artifacts?
The Neural Buddhists “In their arguments with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, the faithful have been defending the existence of God. That was the easy debate. The real challenge is going to come from people who feel the existence of the sacred, but who think that particular religions are just cultural artifacts built on top of universal human traits. It’s going to come from scientists whose beliefs overlap a bit with Buddhism.” (Posted 2008/5/13--0)

Parvati wins
Did anyone ever have a more appropriate last name than Parvati Shallow? (Posted 2008/5/11--0)

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