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The Evil at Sandy Hook
Evil visited this community today, so declared Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Malloy was one of many who mentioned evil as the root source of Friday’s mass murder at an elementary school in Newtown. At...
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A Prayer for the Fallen
Pastel by Ron Weil Merton’s Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the...
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Lambs to Lanza’s Slaughter
“I haven’t been able to read a book aloud since.” Jackie Barden was speaking about the shooting death of her son Daniel at Sandy Hook. Saturday marks the one year anniversary of the day Adam Lanza...
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Letter to Urban Outfitters
Dear Urban Outfitters: I was nine years old in 1966 when my father, Staff Sgt. David P. Spears, was killed in Vietnam Ia Drang Valley. I can’t tell you all the ways in which his death altered the...
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About that Pilot
The Associated Press put out this story about the family of Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who murdered 149 people with an airplane last week. It was an article stating that the Lutheran pastor and...
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The Lone Gunman in America
You probably think this is going to be some rant about gun control. It’s not. Though, as I told one commenter on Facebook today, if you isolate people on an island and don’t give any of them guns,...
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The Evil at Sandy Hook
Evil visited this community today, so declared Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Malloy was one of many who mentioned evil as the root source of Friday’s mass murder at an elementary school in Newtown. At...
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A Prayer for the Fallen
Pastel by Ron Weil Merton’s Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the...
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Lambs to Lanza’s Slaughter
“I haven’t been able to read a book aloud since.” Jackie Barden was speaking about the shooting death of her son Daniel at Sandy Hook. Saturday marks the one year anniversary of the day Adam Lanza...
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Letter to Urban Outfitters
Dear Urban Outfitters: I was nine years old in 1966 when my father, Staff Sgt. David P. Spears, was killed in Vietnam Ia Drang Valley. I can’t tell you all the ways in which his death altered the...
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About that Pilot
The Associated Press put out this story about the family of Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who murdered 149 people with an airplane last week. It was an article stating that the Lutheran pastor and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Lone Gunman in America
You probably think this is going to be some rant about gun control. It’s not. Though, as I told one commenter on Facebook today, if you isolate people on an island and don’t give any of them guns,...
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America is not Great
America is not great. America is not even good. America is a country where children are being gunned down in their schools, in their homes, in their churches. America is not great. America is not even...
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A Message for Stoneman Douglas Students
I told Tim last night that if the students from Parkland go to march in DC I want to be there with them. When my father died in Vietnam I was only nine, which was old actually. I have friends who are...
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Kids These Days
Students marching in Bend, Oregonphoto credit Bill Dahl When I hear people bemoan the youth of today, how lazy and insolent they are, how disrespectful and disruptive they are, how they don’t do...
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An Isolating Affair
We were just a couple of songs into the Shabbat service on Saturday when a congregant sobs cracked across the crowded room. Those sobs soon turned into downright wails. The rabbi paused, looked, then...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is Nobody’s Fool
Let’s fix a myth: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not from the North Georgia District she won in. I lived in Rome, Georgia. I went to school there. It’s a lovely place full of kind-hearted mountain folks...
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