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Another Transfiguration

November 5, 2020

As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.

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Tagged With: BlackLivesMatter, Transfiguration, Pandemic, COVID-19, Race, Bible
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2012 Veterans Day Poster

Veterans Never Stop Serving

November 11, 2012

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.

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Tagged With: Veteran's Day, Soldiers, Sacrifice, Holidays, Democracy
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Cover of Plato's "Republic"

Politics After the Apocalypse

November 11, 2012

If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Politics
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

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.

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Tagged With: Soldiers, War & Peace, Vietnam, Twitter, Sixties, Pittsburgh Pirates, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Iraq, Holidays, Germany, Chicago Cubs, Baghdad, Army, Afghanistan
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Tagged With: digitalculture, Digital Literacy, Dana Hanley, Civility, Books, Bookmarks, e-books, SpinStoppers, Voltaire, Reading on the Rise, Reading, RCBLinks, Politics, Peter Osnos, NEA, Kassia Krozser, Jason Epstein, e-readers
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Tagged With: Sacrifice, Politics, King Arthur, John McCain, Democracy, Change, Camelot, Barack Obama, Alfred Lord Tennyson
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