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Billion-Dollar Numbness
The Senate Finance Committee just gave the go-ahead to move forward with the health care reform bill everyone has been yelling about for the past year. According to the reports, the estimated cost of the whole thing would be $829 billion, or $829,000,000,000. Lots of zeros.
Over the past few years, with all the recession talk and bailouts [...]
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Tags: consumerism, disillusionment, politics, the world
Think Bigger Than That
Whatever the gospel is, it centers on the inauguration of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen from the dead. Hence the gospel is not first and foremost about a network of moral injunctions, nor about this or that kind of religious experience, nor about the arrival of the church, nor about some scheme [...]
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Tags: books, church, God, the world
American Comedic
I saw way to many police cars this week.
A guy was yelling threats and profanity at a girl three houses down from mine on Saturday. The girl’s mom threatened to call the cops if he didn’t stop, and when he wouldn’t let up, she called them. I pulled down my street just as the two [...]
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Tags: disillusionment, life, the world
Where’s Walden
Last week I was in the middle of struggling through a paper that I put off for far too long. I sat down to start writing it around 7:30 and then found myself having to drag my laptop downstairs, powercord and all so that I could watch 24, furiously writing and agonizing over words during [...]
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Tags: consumerism, Costa Rica, disillusionment, life, the world, youth
Where Were You When
Today I was convinced that three months ago, in a crowded warehouse amidst a crowd of several hundred people, I voted for the right man when I cast my ballot and exercised my right as a citizen of this country.
One of my professors today made the remark that today is going to be one of [...]
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Tags: Christianity, God, life, politics, the world
… AND We’re Back
Well finally, after about three months of nothing, my laptop has been fixed and I can now return to my forgotten site where I write about topics that I understand a lot less than I think I do. But hopefully now that I had immediate access to a computer I’ll find myself on here more [...]
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Tags: life, the world
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