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August 2006
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friends
Catching up with old friends
08.03.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Catching up with old friendsI was pleased to see that two college buddies I’d lost touch with have blogs filling me in on everything. War on Terror veteran Contact with the World and current seminarian Questions and Rants (aka deaconess_grrl here in comments).
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woody-guthrie, work
Talking hard work
I was listening to my fellow Okie expat Woody Guthrie on the way home tonight and came across this gem: While we are on the subject of hard work, I just wanted to tell you that I am a man who likes hard work. I was born working and I worked my way up to […]
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seminary
28 things they won’t teach you in seminary
08.03.06 | Permalink | 11 CommentsEvery wonder what ministers don’t learn in seminary? Quite a bit that you’d think they would need to know. I compiled this incomplete list with my pal Silver Tongued Devil, a fellow seminary graduate. All of these are from our own seminary experiences or those of close friends. Please add your own at the end, […]
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ethics, fashion, free-speech, hate-speech, morality, politically-correct
What you can’t say
08.02.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on What you can’t sayAre you morally fashionable?
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efficiency, management, productivity, socialism, subsidiarity, success, work
The work ethic of the lillies of the field
Middle class lockdown prophet Joe Bageant links to a hefty review of The False Gospel of Work by Eugene McCarraher. Among the book’s bold claims: The work ethic’s boss is Mammon. We have a triune birthright: rest, product, and pleasure in work. Talking about consumerism is a way of not talking about capitalism. “Productivity” is […]
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