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About PaulVK

Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Hobby Lobby Goes to the Supreme Court

Posted on March 21, 2014 by PaulVK

The two sides are pitching this case in different ways, but the issues themselves are far more complex. This gets into the “Citizens United” case that established that corporations are people. Christianity Today Slate When Corporations get saved Mother Jones: … Continue reading →

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Esther Sermon Series

Posted on March 21, 2014 by PaulVK

Esther and the Christian Canon Esther Act 1: The Seduction of the People of God Esther Act 2: What Haman Saved Esther From Esther Act 3: How We Undo Ourselves In Empire Esther Act 4: Rhyming Our Way Through the … Continue reading →

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Living Water in the Age of Decay

Posted on March 21, 2014 by PaulVK

“Show me a man with his needs satisfied, and I’ll show you a man in serious trouble.”  Novelist Walker Percy comments in his 1989 speech to the National Endowment of the Humanities “Show me a man with his needs satisfied, … Continue reading →

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Where is Happiness Found?

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

I was reading Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place where before the war she lived with three aunts in the home, Tante Anna, Tante Bep and Tante Jans. Tante Anne was the only healthy one and she gave herself to keeping house … Continue reading →

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Memories of L’Wren Scott

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/fashion/lwren-scott-remembered-by-cathy-horyn.html  

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How A Shamed, Female, Sexually Sinful Heretic Becomes Jesus’ First Successful Evangelist

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

The Death of God Elie Wiesel in Night tells the story of Akiba Drumer, a rabbi from a small town in Poland. He was old and bent, his lips constantly trembling. He was always praying, in the block, at work, in … Continue reading →

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Measuring Time

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

Nice Video from the Atlantic

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“God is Dead” has no meaning in the Dyadic World

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

In this video from his speech to the national endowment of the humanities Walker Percy talks about the dyadic and the triadic modes of being in terms of understanding what science can and cannot address. There are no cats in this 50 … Continue reading →

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Cosmos and Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

HT Dreher http://cosmostheinlost.com/2014/03/19/walker-percy-college-dorm-arguments-sagan-degrasse-tyson/ Direct link to cspan video of Percy speaking “Show me a man with his needs satisfied, and I’ll show you a man in serious trouble.” Dyadic vs triadic events around minute 32. C.S. Pierce

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Peter Lanza, the father of the Sandy Hook Shooter tells his story

Posted on March 19, 2014 by PaulVK

The New Yorker

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