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Jul.02.2012
photo: Farmer's Wife in Clogs, 1892 by Louis Roy, from 1st-art-gallery.com
Check out this website, 1892farmwife.blogspot.com. As the link suggests, it's a diary of a Maine farmer's wife in 1892. Doesn't sound interesting? Well, I thought so, too, but since I was doing...
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Jul.01.2012
Many of us struggle with the issue of religion, and in particular the evidence for or against the existence of a god, or indeed, a glowing afterlife. This topic is one I myself have wrangled with for years (and years, and years). To that end I share with you my own ‘spiritual...
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Jun.29.2012
...I'd be smiling, laughing even. I might even smoke a cigar, kick my feet up on my brimstone desk, and sip a hot toddy. Another job well done.
I learned way back in Sunday school that even Satan can quote Scripture. He knows what the Bible says. That's just...
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Jun.28.2012
If you speak to God, is it like singing? Like a cantor or priest, do we pronounce our praise in soulful cadences? Or, do we speak at all? There are wordless prayers prayed everday. Our hearts beat, souls throb, blood pulses with the prayer, "God, let me live one more day." In silence, in...
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Jun.26.2012
Mosque (also spelled Mosk) is an Islamic place of worship. Similar to a church or synagogue, it is used by Muslims who believe in the faith established by Mohammed. A minaret is a slim tower attached to a mosque and is surrounded by one or more balconies, from which the summons to pray is spoken....
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Jun.19.2012
I say "career" because obviously I'm not actually being paid (yet) But a new examination of something I've loved since I was a boy - the game of soccer - has me discovering just how deeply this game is woven into cultures across the world. The game has had, and continues to have via global...
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Jun.17.2012
A Land More Kind Than Home, by Wiley Cash
image via vanityfair.com
Appalachian literature has had its good and bad periods, but perhaps Wiley Cash’s first novel bodes well for the region’s fiction, as well as for the author. Cash’s story is a bit of a whodunit, a bit suspense, with a whole...
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Jun.15.2012
1976. Twenty years old, I was in the US Air Force and stationed at Clark Air Base in the PI. I was an emergency actions controller and flight-follower, working the the 3rd Tactical Air Wing's Command Post, coordinating daily flight activity and training for disasters and war. I'd been married a...
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May.21.2012
"Don't do that!"
The child looks to the parent for an explanation, wanting to know why. The glare from the parent lets the child know that the reason is not as important as the rule.
From the point of birth, we all live...
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May.16.2012
If you cannot get your daily bread, is joining a convent the answer? What about the call of god as a spiritual experience?
The recession seems to have hit the women hard in UK and reports say they are choosing to become nuns. Although the figures aren’t alarming, the reason for the choice...
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