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Paper Hearts 22 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
If I focus on the bookshelf, I will forget I’m in Cambodia. By squinting just a bit, so that my field of vision narrows to exclude the servers and the mention of “lok lak beef” on the specials board,...
My Pilgrim Past 19 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
After trekking through Rhode Island to capture what tidbits of history I could glean regarding my 11th and 12th great-grandfather, I decided to visit my pilgrim heritage in Plymouth. According to my a...
Love is an Animal Thing 15 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
There is a stork whose yearly migration—from South Africa to rural Croatia—brings him to his destination on the same day, at approximately the same time. Humans have begun to call him Rodan. They want...
Warhol’s Grave Sight 13 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
“I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment” —Andy Warhol To pay homage to Andy Warhol’s message and honor the anniver...
Dear Nancy 8 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
What we have done is wrong. I regret sleeping with you eight years ago, when through we lived apart, I was already supposedly in a monogamous relationship with my wife. I also regret keeping in touch,...
Many Sour Saints 1 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Pope Francis has made some statements regarding Catholic moods lately—admonishing clergy for having “sad, long faces” and saying “Buenos dias” to religious who may have psychiatric problems. Pope Fr...
Color and Consciousness 1 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
At the beginning of his book But I Don’t See You As Asian, Bruce Reyes-Chow, a Presbyterian minister and active public speaker on faith and race, narrates a few cringe-inducing anecdotes from his life...
Deacon Tim’s Ghost Degree 25 Jul 2013 | 09:25 pm
I recently went on a weekend retreat for liturgical folk/rock musicians with my All Humans’ Mass Band (formerly the Four-Man Mass Band) bandmate, Deacon Tim Carroll. Deacon Tim, as he is known, was al...
The Act of Killing 15 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
In The Act of Killing, coming to theaters July 19th, documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer adopts a novel approach to documenting death squad atrocities. He challenges Anwar Congo and other leaders of Indo...
7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher 12 Jul 2013 | 05:32 pm
William Lane Craig, from his July 2013 email newsletter. Nobody—or just about nobody, depending on whom you ask—beats William Lane Craig in a debate about the existence of God, or the resurrection of...
