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Your Religious Freedom, or My Back?
Photo Credit: kelby93 via Compfight cc It has been a painful seven days on a lot of fronts. On the national stage, as the politically engineered austerity crisis called sequestration unrolled...
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On Being a “Plain Member and Citizen”
Photo Credit: AlicePopkorn via Compfight cc See Update below. Tonight I am following up on the so-called “religious freedom” bill, House Bill 279, that was the subject of my last post. The news is sad,...
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Dead Flowers
Photo Credit: Joe Shlabotnik via Compfight cc This morning The Boy and I walked downstairs to pile in the car for school and for work. On the way down the back steps, he noticed for the first time that...
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Where Is the Road? (The Good Samaritan, Trayvon, and Privilege)
I preached this sermon today at Douglass Boulevard Christian Church. The context is important. I had written all but one paragraph of this sermon before the verdict came down in the George Zimmerman...
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Reading, Again and for the First Time
As is clear from the date of my last post, I haven’t been blogging much lately. It’s not that I haven’t had thoughts. Some of them are even decent enough to be bloggable. Life, though, has intervened...
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Twelve Years Ago
What am I supposed to learn? I haven’t learned it yet Smoke another cigarette –Michael Knott, “Jail” Twelve years ago today, I was living in State College, Pennsylvania. I was ABD (“all but...
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Chase’s Collection, Debt Sales Reined In by Regulators
Photo Credit: swisscan via Compfight cc This post will read like a bit of a departure for me, since it has to do with a side of my life (consumer debt and collections) about which I don’t typically...
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In Search of Golden Tickets (Part 1)
Photo Credit: Artriarch via Compfight cc Two days ago, my son and I began to read Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at bedtime. It was the first full-length book I ever read, and I ended...
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Focus on the (Chosen) Family
Photo Credit: Valeri-DBF via Compfight cc This post is my contribution to QueerTheology.com’s Queer Synchroblog 2013. This year’s theme is “Queer Creation.” Links to all of the other excellent entries...
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In Search of Golden Tickets: 2. Cold Indifference
Photo Credit: aeter via Compfight cc My son and I are reading Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at bedtime. It was the first full-length book I ever read, and I ended up reading it many...
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Advent, Day 3: “Peace”
The above photo is my submission for day three of rethinkchurch.org‘s Advent Photo-a-Day project. If you haven’t seen a Photo-a-Day challenge before, the idea is to take a photo each day that relates...
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Advent, Day 4: “Time”
The above photo is my submission for day four of rethinkchurch.org‘s Advent Photo-a-Day project. See yesterday’s photo/post for more information. Today’s word, “time,” makes me think about doing time....
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Advent, Day 13: “Justice”
The above photo is my submission for day thirteen of rethinkchurch.org‘s Advent Photo-a-Day project. I work in legal services, so I see a lot of places like the courthouse in my picture for today. Many...
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Advent, Day 16: “Strong”
I am a day late with my photo for Day Sixteen of Advent, but no matter. Better late than never. This photo is of a co-worker’s office chair. He had a procedure done last week. He is recovering quite...
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Sermon: “The Meaning of Yes” (Matthew 5:21-37)
Photo Credit: Avanaut via Compfight cc The following is a sermon delivered on Sunday, February 16, 2014 at Douglass Boulevard Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Louisville, KY. Thanks to Derek...
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Capital One Adopting “Strongarm” Contract Terms
Photo Credit: Louis Abate via Compfight cc (Before reading this post, please review my Legal Disclaimer.) Today an article in the L.A. Times about a change to Capital One’s credit card terms and...
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At Least I Had Fun
Photo Credit: kevin dooley via Compfight cc I read an interview with David Graeber this morning that captures one of the reasons I never felt like I fit in in the academy. I always thought that the...
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OCC Publishes Guidelines for Consumer Debt Sales
Photo Credit: woodleywonderworks via Compfight cc A further piece of news from the bank regulation/debt collection beat I sometimes cover: On Monday, August 4, the federal Office of the Comptroller of...
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