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First Posted 28-Feb-2015 We are a silly culture. When asked to sacrifice for the weeks leading up to Easter our best ideas are things like using Facebook less or giving up Deep Fried Twinkies. I’m sure the more serious among us do needful things like quit drinking or smoking orContinue Reading

Bald Eagle and American Flag

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First Posted 03-Nov-2014 There are two domains for this. One is the realm of the religious world, where orthodoxy is very much a part of discipleship. We have been arguing about what that Orthodoxy is from pretty much the beginning. But, it’s there and part of being a follower ofContinue Reading

Toy Car

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I’m sorry, Monsieur Papier, that I’ve not followed my original thesis exactly–Collectives become impossible beyond a certain size because gaining consensus with too many people in the room becomes impossible. The co-ops that survive have had to move toward more traditional and hierarchical styles of organization and management so thatContinue Reading

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First Posted 11-Dec-2014 When I was young, when (maybe not at the same time) I was down, calling a shelter or church social hall home, peril seemed imminent. If I didn’t handle something right then, trouble. A week was a long time. As I’ve aged, and as I’ve sought toContinue Reading