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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Checking out Into the Video Game World

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world

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The Cheap Grace of the Ascending Civil Religion

https://twitter.com/PWRBTTMBAND/status/800758685219819520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In 2008 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were against Same-sex marriage and for “civil unions”.  While we don’t know what they believed personally.  Politicians prevail by reading the room. From 2000-2012 the cry was “don’t you judge me!”. From 2012 to … Continue reading →

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Mother and son become transgender father and daughter | MLive.com

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/03/mother_and_son_complete_transi.html#incart_river_home Ht to Bill Vis

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SNL Fire Island and Cherry Grove

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Materialism Alone Can’t Explain Consciousness

https://aeon.co/essays/materialism-alone-cannot-explain-the-riddle-of-consciousness It’s hard not to feel the intuitional weight of today’s metaphysical sobriety. Like Pickett’s Charge up the hill at Gettysburg, who wants to argue with the superior position of those armed with ever more precise fMRIs, EEGs and the … Continue reading →

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“Tired of toxicity in your activist community?”

http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/03/tired-toxicity-activist-community-address-6-issues/

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Where would Christianity be without the civil powers that privileged it?

https://www.circeinstitute.org/blog/benedict-or-constantine-part-2 Dreher and Ben Op Reynolds: I guess I have a real concern here, though, in that I don’t think that it takes the actual history of the world seriously enough. Orthodox communities would not have survived in the Middle … Continue reading →

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Andy Crouch on the Ben Op

http://andy-crouch.com/extras/the_benedict_option_in_percentages

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Sarah Bessey Quit Drinking

http://sarahbessey.com/quit-drinking/

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We made the banana

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/humans-made-banana-perfect-soon-itll-gone/

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