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The Cultural
48 posts
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Pedro the Lion Rises from the Ashes With Phoenix
With ‘Phoenix’, Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan Emerges from the Mines of His Interiority : NPR: By offering up his own interior narrative, Bazan holds a mirror to the self-mythologizing we all do
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Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?
A powerful essay on the “co-opting” of minority cultures by Parul Sehgal. This is something I am deeply interested in understanding
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Birthday Parties in a Cul-de-Sac
Birthday Parties in a Cul-de-Sac: The Conundrum and Guilt of Planning a Birthday Party in the Burbs I realize not all morality finds its origins in the 80s, but in this case,
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Modern Day Parable on Environmentalism (Joel Salatin)
Reading in the Christian Century today there was a review of Joel Salatin’s newest book “Mad farmer?” and read this parable from the “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic,” as Michael Pollan describes in
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When The Church Becomes a Department Store
You can drive around most neighborhoods here in the suburbs and find at least some vacant buildings. Some of them are small, and if not historic, they at least have a history. While others
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Has Christmas Lost its Power?
Going through Christmas this year I began to wonder if Christmas has lost it’s power as a symbol and sign in
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Interfaith Clergy Letter to the Editor in Clark County
(This is a letter a group of us from Clark County wrote in response to some of the controversy surrounding September 11th this past week. We submitted it to our local papers which did
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There is No Pure Christianity
A long while back a friend of mine wrote on his twitter this remark: There is no pure Christianity, it is all
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The Wounding of Creation
This morning someone in our meeting requested prayer for the oil spill and during the time of prayer the image of the
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Creating Liberated Spaces: Some Thoughts
Back in February, and on the dawn of Transfiguration Sunday, about 30 (?) folks piled into a Southeastern Portland home to share in a conversation being facilitated by two out of towners Eliacin Rosario-Cruz
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Simplicity in a World of Excess – John 12:1-8
This week on the pastor’s email list there has been a really long discussion around whether it is appropriate to boycott certain businesses. It all started when a pastor sent around a forward
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Favorite Music of 2009
Here’s a list of my favorite, or at least most listened to, albums from this past year. Elvis Perkins In Dearland
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Let’s have an Amazon.com-free Christmas this year
Recently on twitter I said something I’m sure lost me a few followers, “Let’s make it an amazon free Christmas.” (Though I don’t doubt I say plenty of things on any
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Dowd on (Role) Modeling
I came across this today while I was doing some back reading from this weekend’s newspaper. It struck me as really
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‘Dont Buy It’ – Slam Poetry from the Climate Camp for OneClimate.net
Came across this today while reading Jarrod McKenna’s post on climate change over at the sojo blog. The poem is really
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