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This is a post I have little desire to pen. It’s not that the Intramuralist fails to possess an opinion. It’s not that I don’t have all the answers. I rarely have all the answers. I hesitate to write about the George Zimmerman verdict because so many
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Yesterday my younger brother got married. My family is both thankful and proud. In preparation for today, the officiating pastor asked us siblings what qualities we most admire in our brother. There’s lots I could say about Stun. He’s witty... He’s wise... He’s athletic... He’s
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When bad things happen, how do we respond? With a woe-is-me attitude? Believing, alas, that we are the victim? Or what if we really are the victim? ... do we get angry? ... indignant? ... or an emboldened “it’s me against the world” mentality? Truthfully, I can understand that. I
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Currently ongoing in central Florida, George Zimmerman is on trial for 2nd degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. Here are the facts, as told by CNN: Trayvon Benjamin Martin, born February 5, 1995, was a 17-year-old African-American high school student who lived in Miami Gardens,
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I witnessed the wildest thing over the weekend. Ok, so it wasn't exactly wild, but the reaction certainly was. It was one of those moments where you watch life unravel so slowly, it seems — like you see what's happening, can tell what will happen next, you
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As fireworks flare across the nation this day, we acknowledge the 4th of July. We celebrate Independence Day, the day 237 years ago when America declared her intentional independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. As infamous patriot, John Adams, penned a day prior: "... I am apt to believe
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I’m not exactly certain how to pen today’s post. It has something to do with hypocrisy. I can just feel it. Articulating it and putting it down on so-called cyber paper, however, is a completely different story. As we watch life’s events unfold in recent months,
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“Love covers a multitude of sins.” Wise words, no doubt. Wise words that most of us seem to believe in. Love is a virtue. Love is good and pure and right. Love “covering sin” makes sense. We, however, allow far more shallow things than love to “cover sin.” Over the
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Let’s face it. This is a tough issue. What is marriage? I mean it. Where’d it start? Who ordained it? What’s the purpose? Contrary to the politicized, popular belief, the gay and lesbian persons in our communities are not any new kind of super-villain. Contrary, too,
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In Sunday’s blog there was one embedded comment that is perhaps relevant in most — maybe all — of the events we examine. It’s arguably applicable in each of our opinions. And it's probably the one aspect that’s hardest for us to admit, especially when our emotions
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Infamous, celebrity butter connoisseur, Paula Deen — the Paula Deen of the millions of dollars Deen cooking empire — acknowledged the previous use of a racial slur. On Friday, Deen apologized for "the wrong that I've done," following this week’s admission that she said the “N-word”
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Yesterday was our annual trek to Children’s Hospital. While there exist few things I would say everyone should do, regular visits to Children’s would be one of them. A simple stroll through the hallways quickly puts life in perspective. As we saw yesterday... Obesity and undernutrition and the