The Archives
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evolution, mary-midgley, pack-animals, shittiness, sin
My best description of human shittiness
Since I talked about it ad infinitum, my own best explanation for human shittiness is that we’re pack animals who belong to too many packs. And then those packs belong to other, super-packs. And it’s hell trying to negotiate all that. Before our species made that turn, aggression was rare and necessary when it happened, […]
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birth-control, drivers-licenses, guilt, high-school-essays, menonnites, morning-after-pill, sin, worst-church-websites
Weekly Scribbler: 09/15/2006
Post I’ve enjoyed this week from folks at The Daily Scribe. (Sorry I missed last week.) A Chutney fave, Pop Occulture, just joined this week. Here’s one from him: “Driving: Rite of Passage.” And here’s another: “The Biology of Guilt“ Religion Blog gets onto a Mennonite doctor for refusing to fill a birth control order […]
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confession, craig-groeschel, liberal-religion, liberating-religion, lifechurch, mysecret, mysecret.tv, sin, unitarian, UU, vocabulary-of-reverence
MySecret.tv: In search of brokenness
08.16.06 | Permalink | 5 CommentsMy old college buddy at Rae’s Space alerted me to MySecret.tv, an evangelical rip off of Post Secret that’s hosted by LifeChurch.tv, a multi-site megachurch run by Craig Groeschel. (I went to Craig’s singles service in college, when we were both still Methodists.) MySecret lets you anonymously post a confession of a sin. Categories include […]
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karma, sin
Sinny sin sin
To excellent Scriber posts on sin, karma, and progress: one from a Buddhist, one from a pagan.
