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Tuesday, 11/17/15

Thoughts on Paris
More thoughts on Paris
Insurance that is scandalously insurance-like
Gut-check on just how bad it is
Men have forgotten God

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readerjohn chicken hawks, Christendom, Civil Religion, Fasting, Foreign Affairs, Islam, Naked Public Square, Prayer, the worst are full of passionate intensity, war November 17, 2015November 17, 2015 4 Minutes

Monday, 11/16/15

Re-imagined, newly invented
A defect in our national character
The “top-down” English Reformation
Keeping Christmas out of Advent
Remembering many a grievous deed

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readerjohn Asceticism, Christendom, Christianity generally, Civil Religion, Consumerism, Demographics, Family, Fasting, History, Miscellany, Nominalism and Realism, Small is Beautiful 2 Comments November 16, 2015November 15, 2015 4 Minutes

Sunday, 11/15/15

Soul Stories
Suggestions for the complicated
Inventing God?
What the dying man knows
Learning how to suffer

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readerjohn Asceticism, Atheism, Fasting, Orthodoxy November 15, 2015November 14, 2015 5 Minutes

Saturday 6/13/15

If you’re too weird for Asheville, you’re too weird
My first Burqa siting
Banning Ayn Rand from polite company
Toppling Putin

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readerjohn Arts and Music, Empire, Fasting, Food, Islam, Libertarianism, Literature, Political Matters, Russia, Sexualia, Technology, Transvaluation of Values, Travel June 13, 2015June 12, 2015 5 Minutes

Sunday, 8/3/14

Is religion anti-social?
A notable 50th anniversary
The social uses of neurosis

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readerjohn Economia, Family, Fasting, Health Care, History, Islam, Literature, Orthodoxy, Poetry, Poverty, Religious freedom, Science August 3, 2014August 3, 2014 7 Minutes

Tuesday, 3/18/14

Guess who didn’t keep their powder dry
This Calvinist non-Lent brought to you by the letter “T”
Suicide for a serious candidate, but …
Soft and Tough Pander Bears
Nomads of Science
Thea Kronborg on what matters

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readerjohn Arts and Music, Calvinism, Christianity generally, Culture, Faith & Ideology, Family, Fasting, Literature, Moralistic therapeutic deism, Secularism, Sundry flakes 3 Comments March 18, 2014March 17, 2014 5 Minutes

Sunday 3/16/14

Stephen King writing tips
Shane McGowan’s map to the unconscious
“How does fasting work?”

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readerjohn Arts and Music, Asceticism, Fasting, Literature, Marriage (real), Orthodoxy March 16, 2014March 16, 2014 5 Minutes

Tuesday Tidbits 7/24/12

If it walks like a duck ….
Taxing innumeracy.
The NCAA is shocked, simply shocked.
Social entropy.
What’s a pious Olympian to do?

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readerjohn Fasting, Food, Islam, Journalism, Legalia, Religious freedom, Sport July 24, 2012July 24, 2012 5 Minutes

Tasty Tidbits 8/14/11

Too much politics.
Dying and yammering in vain.
Warning: A Republican calling for a Day of Prayer and Fasting!
A Legend in his own mind.
An irresistible political line.
Sons of God now, but someday …

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readerjohn Asceticism, Fasting, Prayer August 15, 2011 2 Minutes

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