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I started this blog to try to overcome a long dry spell in my writing. For months, I found it exceptionally difficult to write anything. I am working on two books, but for most of last year I was stalled. This was partly due to a change in medication at
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My fellow Americans, We are struggling. We are weighed down by health insurance, medical debt, credit card debt, student loan debt, car payments, high rents, and taxes. We work service industry jobs, toiling day in and day out to meet the demands of the rich. And not on accident but
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The Refutation of Private Property
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Here’s a breakdown of my three posts from this month: * Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Success and Stupidity“Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian who is famous for having been imprisoned and ultimately executed for his participation in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Third Reich. As an
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President Donald Trump has been repeating a disturbing phrase: “Drill, baby, drill.” He even said it in his inaugural address. Later that day, in an executive order Trump opened up Alaskan wildlife refuges for oil exploration. In another executive order, he revoked a ban imposed by former President Joe Biden
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Both/And vs. Either/Or
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A message for our time
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(and Nietzsche again)
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on Nietzsche, the eternal return, and loving one's fate
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how an atheist philosopher made me a better theologian
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The biblical writer Qohelet famously said, “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecc. 3:1) and he included in his list, “a time for love and a time for hate” (v.8). We hear a lot about “a time for love,” about
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on Kierkegaard and despair