Monthly Archives: June 2012

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

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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

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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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Links from reading the Atlantic Today

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

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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

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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

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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

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