A More Dangerous Corruption
“Corruption” is a popular word today, and it is usually used to denote dishonest behavior within an institution. The most [...]
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06, 2013
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06, 2013
In Defense Of Guilt And Shame
While reading last week’s church bulletin, I came across an announcement for a mini-retreat titled “Letting Go of Shame and [...]
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05, 2013
Valuing Faith And Reason
In the late 18th century Thomas Paine argued in The Age of Reason that reason and revelation are in opposition and [...]
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05, 2013
The Janitorial Conspiracy
While the national and international media have been mired in the minutiae of the Obama administration’s triple scandal, our crack [...]
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05, 2013
More Language Peeves
It must have happened during one of those moments when I wasn’t looking, but there’s no question that it did [...]
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05, 2013
Language Peeves
The TV news person was commenting about a story concerning the Boston Marathon bombing when she said, “The story just [...]
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04, 2013
The War Against Sexist Language
Washington state governor Jay Inslee recently signed a bill that goes a long way toward ending biased language in state [...]
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04, 2013
Let’s Stop Clinging To Nonsense
In April of 2013, Tulane professor and talk-show host Melissa Harris-Perry, made the following remark on camera: We have never invested [...]
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04, 2013
Wages, Capitalism, And Morality: Part II
(Note: Part I documented that the minimum wage harms the very people it is designed to help and the popular alternative—letting capitalism [...]
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04, 2013
Wages, Capitalism, And Morality: Part I
It is commonly believed that fairness demands a certain level of wage be guaranteed to all workers. That is the [...]