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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Church of George Washington and Robert E Lee take down memorials

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/27/george-washingtons-church-tear-down-memorial-honor/ HT: Dreher

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Do horror films help stop crime?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/27/what-if-horror-movies-actually-stop-crime-not-cause-it

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The Week Trump won: David Brooks

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From Gender-Dysphoria to Cultural-Dysphoria: A dysphoria of your own

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/what-is-cultural-dysphoria/ It doesn’t matter if it’s about gender. As long as you have 1. a feeling of not belonging 2. something to attached it to or blame it on, like some person or culture telling you you ought to be … Continue reading

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Dreher: Is God Mean? plus Bart Campolo says Progressive Christianity is a gateway drug to atheism

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/is-god-mean-ulrich-lehner/  https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Bart-Campolo-says-progressive-Christians-turn-into-atheists.-Maybe-he-s-right https://holyheretics.libsyn.com/episode-35-bart-campolo-good-for-goodness-sake “We don’t care what theology you have, we don’t care what you do, oops, we do care what you do. We want you to act for the greater good.”  

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Review of Metaxas book on Luther

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/10/a-luther-for-millennials Did it never occur to Luther that the body of Christ, broken for him, was offered even in his despair? Strikingly, not once does Metaxas show Luther writing about the Eucharist. Of course, Luther despaired at times of the … Continue reading

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Marcus Borg “What is God?”

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Was the Reformation a Mistake?

https://religionnews.com/2017/10/24/was-the-reformation-a-mistake-a-catholic-and-protestant-debate/  

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What is Identity and What Will Be Its End

Identity is an interesting thing. Jordan Peterson makes the observation that it is indeed a public thing, but like reputation it is publicly constructed more than individually asserted. Our current POTUS surely has an opinion as to what his reputation … Continue reading

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Jeff Flake

  Resignation speech transcript Douthat Jeff Flake as Mormon  

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