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oru, oru scandal
Reflections on ORU scandal
10.08.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments(While you’re here, check out more from Making Chutney.) After looking at some of the comments to a Tulsa World story, here’s what I can glean: 1. ORU is a small community. People know folks who know other folks who heard that so-and-so didn’t do such-and-such. And that he did. 2. A lot of this […]
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pick up lines, theology
Top 20 theological pick up lines
10.08.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsFor the theologically afflicted. Use at your own risk.
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athens, georgia, uga, UU
Shout out to UGA UUs
10.08.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI am a very happy OU fan this week (take that, Texas!), but I thought I could still point to this article about UUs in Athens, GA, home of the University of Georgia.
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gay, oklahoma, oral roberts university, oru scandal, richard roberts, scandal
Update: Richard Roberts responds to ORU scandal
10.06.07 | Permalink | 47 Comments(While you’re here, check out more from Making Chutney.) Richard says he pays for everything himself, not the University. If true, this gets him out of legal hot water. But he’ll still have to answer ethically for the $50,000 of clothes, a $30,000 senior trip for his daughter, ORU employees being paid to do his […]
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oklahoma, oral roberts, oral roberts university, oru scandal, richard roberts, scandal
Oral Roberts in deep water (again)
10.06.07 | Permalink | 13 Comments(While you’re here, check out my blog.) Oral Roberts University, that is. Oral put himself out to pasture years ago—just after his “call home” got him in deep water—and his son Richard Roberts and his wife Lindsay have been running the show since. The long and short of it is that Richard and Lindsay (and […]
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atheists, evangelicals, parenting
Atheist father vs. evangelical daughter
10.04.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAn atheist father writes in to Salon’s advice columnist to ask what he should do about his daughter weeping because daddy is going to hell. The columnist suggests he buck up and go to church with his daughter. Commenters advise taking her to a different faith community each week, taking her to a UU congregation, […]
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