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A few good reads for your weekend
I’ve run across so many excellent short pieces of writing on the Internet recently that I am going to serve up a list of Posts Worth Your Time this weekend. None of these are particularly long, so grab them as mental snacks when you have time: My friend John Ellis’s passionate review of Bill Mallonee’s…
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An eloquent, gut-wrenching, beautiful exposition of grief
Find a handkerchief and, for the love of all that matters, please read this. Sheryl Sandberg is the COO of Facebook. A month ago, her husband David, CEO of SurveyMonkey, died in an abrupt accident. Here she unpacks the past 30 days of mourning and teaches all of us how to grieve and how to love…
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Working alone
I work in a small office of 4 people, myself included. There’s The Fearless Leader, the one who points out the general direction we should be headed and makes decisions. He’s a genuine extrovert but not in the way that makes you want to punch people for being obnoxious, hyper puppies; more of the “likes people,…
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Link: For God So Loved Caitlyn Jenner
Instead of trying to wade into the Caitlyn Jenner debate, I’m going to commend this blog post by Marty Duren, which was republished by the Washington Post. I think he expresses my opinion as well as I could, if not better. An excerpt, but please read the whole thing. “I do not know all the…
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Explaining fundamentalism
When I first meet people, or sometimes after we’ve gotten acquainted and questions arise about upbringing, I find myself trying to explain what fundamentalism is. It’s usually connected to the “oh, where did you go to college?” inquiry — what ought to be an innocent question for my friend or colleague and an easy answer…
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