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January 22, 2013 By
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Creation Groans
Turning & turning – and do we now see /
Mere anarchy at last upon the world?
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January 1, 2013 By
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Veterans Never Stop Serving
Even after our veterans take off the uniform, they never stop serving. Many apply the skills and experience they developed on the battlefield to a life of service here at home. They take on roles in their communities as doctors and police officers, engineers and entrepreneurs, mothers and fathers.
November 11, 2012 By
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Politics After the Apocalypse
If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?
November 11, 2012 By
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Remebering Labor, Entering Rest
To truly make this a holiday, to truly rest in praise of the goodness, truth, & beauty of Labor Day, requires contemplation.
September 7, 2009 By
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad
Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.
May 25, 2009 By
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
January 18, 2009 By
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Intermission Music
“I have to admit, it’s getting better…”
November 4, 2008 By
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Letter to a Young Voter
It’s late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn’t matter whether you have everything figured out yet — just participate. Be devoted — make a sacrifice of devotion — to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.
November 2, 2008 By
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