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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
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Here’s the challenge... No matter the merits... No matter the goodness... No matter the efficiency... No matter the cost... Instead of engaging in dialogue that encourages actual, objective analysis, we instead attempt to seduce audiences into thinking all is good or all is not. In other words, we don’
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All these codes... the man code, girl code, girlfriend code, baby code, even the traditional zip and area codes. Last week this parent of teenagers unexpectedly stumbled against THE BRO CODE. Do a little colloquial research. This so-called “code” is a loosely unwritten, relational guide as to how manly
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You may have realized that the Intramuralist has a bit of a “nerdy side.” Sorry, I’m pretty comfortable with it. It’s the part of me that implored me to memorize each offensive stat for every Major League Baseball starter as a kid — and the same motive for committing
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Listen closely to line #1: this is not a sports post. (Remember that...) This past weekend, I couldn’t believe the judgment of the infield umpire! Alex, who plays for our team — the good team, the right team, the wisest and best — was leading off on first. The game was
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Let’s start with what we believe to be the facts: The federal government has been secretly collecting information about the telephone records of millions of Americans for years. In addition to phone calls, under a surveillance program code-named “Prism” — a covert collaboration between the NSA and FBI — online
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As of yesterday, all 3 of my children advanced to a new grade level. Education is important in our family. Allow me to humbly share with you what I hope they learned... If they learned to speak the languages of foreigners — but have not love for the foreigner — then the
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What are we teaching the younger generation? What are we modeling for our kids? ... that appearance is everything? ... that sports stars and celebrities are life’s most admirable professions? ... that an ABC summer show entitled “Mistresses” is good television? That’s the question: what are we teaching them? Are we