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Monthly Archives: June 2012
The American Values Survey
Poll done by the Atlantic. “21 Charts that Explain America’s Values” Longer version of it here. A Rod Dreher reaction.
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The “Having it all Discussion”
Launched by The Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” Salon response: “We should immediately strike the phrase “have it all” from the feminist lexicon and never, ever use it again.” “Sad white babies with mean feminist mommies” … Continue reading
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Why the Resurrection is Disruptive
A pattern has developed in the book of Acts of getting rid of Paul. Paul is not a zealot knifing Roman solders and officials. Paul is not a revolutionary leader, gathering together men willing to bring commotion in the street. … Continue reading
Making Paul Go Away
In Paul’s second missionary journey a definite pattern emerges. It isn’t so much a pattern of his enemies. If you’re keeping score Luke is remarkably even handed here with respect to the opposition. Sometimes Jews side with Paul or come … Continue reading
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American Values Survey What is happening to the girls of Pakistan? Is the Mormon religion different from Christianity? by Andrew Sullivan Why Women Still can’t have it all Values Change in Silicon Valley
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Your Third Person Self, Clothed and Naked
(Sorry, the video won’t play embedded. Click through to youtube to get a sense of it. You probably won’t need to watch the whole thing.) Sexy Me vs. Plain Me This video is a fun experiment in our rebellion against … Continue reading
The Cultured, Willful Self
The Most Adaptive Creature on the Planet The scope of human programmability is astounding. People have figured out how to live in tropical jungles and arctic regions. People have developed cultures where a deity requires the ceremonial sacrifice of incredible … Continue reading
Seeing Multiple Selves in Time
We can’t see our selves People can’t see themselves. Our eyes are in our sockets and unless we have a mirror we see outwards, not inwards. Just like with our physical bodies we require a mirror to bounce the light … Continue reading
The Sticky Self and the Reflected Self
Earlier I wrote about identity and the self. If we imagine the self to be a house, then identity is the space and the medium through which we see the house, the walls that can be painted, the front and … Continue reading
Getting Burned without Scars of the Self
Nice blog post by Amy Young on “How to treat a burn when it’s relational“ I left this comment. I read her blog after working on my Heidelberg Catechism on the Fifth Commandment. I’m teaching the Heidelberg Catechism this week … Continue reading →