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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Augustine on Suicide

This question resolves itself in this book into a long discussion of a fundamental issue brought up by the sack and by important moral exemplars in Roman history. Is suicide a sin? Is life worth the effort of living it? … Continue reading →

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Fleming Rutledge Who’s Life? Who’s Death? Suicide

http://ruminations.generousorthodoxy.org/2017/05/whose-life-is-it-and-whose-death.html This one, however, really shook me up. To me, it seems to signal a turn in the culture more radical than others–more so even than gender issues, more than cohabitation, more than planned out-of-wedlock births, more than surrogacy–all of … Continue reading →

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Marshmallow Vs. The Mob | The American Conservative

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/marshmallow-mob-evergreen-state/

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Cult of Wellness

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A brief definition of the web

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15681958/what-is-web-definition

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“the Awful Pleasures of Spiritual Pornography”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-awful-pleasures-of-spiritual-pornography/#

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Targeting Ads on Facebook TWIT

 

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Will Ferrell USC Commencement

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Myley Cyrus’ “Creepy Return to Wholesomeness”

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/miley-cyruss-creepy-return-to-wholesomeness As Zeba Blay pointed out on the Huffington Post, Cyrus’s casual trying-on and discarding of black culture is a function of extraordinary privilege. That she has essentially scrubbed her music and image of any hints of the hip-hop and R. & B. she … Continue reading →

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NYTimes: Manuel Noriega, Dictator Ousted by U.S. in Panama, Dies at 83

Manuel Noriega, Dictator Ousted by U.S. in Panama, Dies at 83 https://nyti.ms/2ri42cd

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