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Take action: South Carolina’s prison abuse
A couple days ago I mentioned this article published in The Atlantic covering the APPALLING treatment of mentally ill patients by the South Carolina prison system. I’m not talking about making people uncomfortable or refusing to coddle criminals. This is criminally inhumane and I’m pretty angry. The judge’s statement about the case (in his decision)…
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The Backstory: I hate geese. it’s probably my mom’s fault.
I have a lot more memories of my mom’s family: her older sister Phyllis and younger siblings “Buck” and Jo Ann. They all gathered for holidays at Buck & Dotty’s house outside Scottdale. Only my mom and Buck had kids, so there weren’t many cousins to play with; in contrast, my dad’s Catholic family…
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The Backstory: Getting a couple brothers
I realize as I’m writing this that my mom’s story is basely even a sketch in my mind. She just didn’t talk about it. In fact, almost everything I know about her life comes from that one time she shared her testimony at church for a Mother’s Day banquet. Mum was a really private person.…
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Billy Graham’s grandson takes Christians to task: An interview with Tullian Tchividjian | On Faith & Culture
“The law offends us because it tells us what to do–and we hate anyone telling us what to do, most of the time. But, ironically, grace offends us even more because it tells us that there’s nothing we can do, that everything has already been done. And if there’s something we hate more than being…
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