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We’re So Vain

Posted on August 19, 2020 by RC

Some things we never quite leave behind this side of the veil. Try as we might to mature and to grow beyond this peculiar brand of foolishness, I’m afraid that at heart we are still junior high girls. Our problem … Continue reading →

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He Who Has Ears, or Powering Down

Posted on August 15, 2020 by RC

Lord Acton was absolutely right, that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. He may have been more right, however, if he had adapted a bit of biblical wisdom in articulating the dangers of power. What if he had said … Continue reading →

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Double Plus Ungood, or The Lies of Big Brother

Posted on August 14, 2020 by RC

There aren’t many moments that I remember discerning pain in my father’s voice. Listening to him recount the sad saga of Francis Gary Powers was one of them. In 1960 Powers piloted a U-2 spy plane across Soviet airspace. With … Continue reading →

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Judging We Are Judged

Posted on August 12, 2020 by RC

No one likes to be judged, but everybody does it. Outside the church, of course, are those who embrace a relativistic ethic, wherein there is no objective right or wrong. Suggest otherwise to these good people, however, and you will … Continue reading →

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American Idols

Posted on August 8, 2020 by RC

We are made in God’s image. The sheer fact that we could spend the rest of our lives contemplating what it means to be made in God’s image, without beginning to scratch the surface, reminds us that we are God’s … Continue reading →

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We Have Met the Censors and They Are Us

Posted on August 7, 2020 by RC

Not long ago I tweeted this: Things you cannot say without getting into a lot of trouble- “Bomb” in the security line at the airport “Fire!” in a crowded, fire-less theater. “He’s a he” about a man in a dress. … Continue reading →

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Playground Wisdom

Posted on August 5, 2020 by RC

There is wisdom in the playground adage that every time we point a finger at others we have three more pointing back at ourselves. It’s true for adults too, who are given to hurling accusations against those who are just … Continue reading →

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The Dance of Life, or The Devil in the E’Gals

Posted on August 1, 2020 by RC

The fall of Adam and Eve is one of the stickiest theological wickets we encounter in the Bible. How could both of them, whom God had declared good, do bad? But there is a stickier wicket still, perhaps made so … Continue reading →

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Literary DNA- My 23 Writers That Made Me Me

Posted on July 31, 2020 by RC

It takes one to know one. Among the realms in which this truism is true is the world of the writer. Writers know writers. While science-y things are well beyond my decidedly non-STEM minded mind I do have some skill … Continue reading →

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Truth or Consequentialism

Posted on July 29, 2020 by RC

There are, in the end, essentially only two forms of ethics. One approach is pragmatic, the other principled. Pragmatism on its own, of course, is always incomplete. That is to say, we can’t answer the question of what works until … Continue reading →

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