• Whole Foods

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    Being at Whole Foods on a Sunday morning in Durham, North Carolina (home of Duke University), is to be in one of the most densely educated [paronomasia] areas in America, possibly the world.

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  • Proof for Never Reading a Bible Verse

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    Look no further than 1 Corinthians 15:19 for proof that you should never read a Bible verse: If in this life we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. Oh, no! What did Paul say? How are we supposed to make sense of this? Read the verse in context […]

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  • From Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Rule

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    “The ruler [pastor] should be a near neighbor to every one in sympathy, and exalted above all in contemplation, so that through the bowels of loving-kindness he may transfer the infirmities of others to himself, and by loftiness of speculation transcend even himself in his aspiration after the invisible; lest either in seeking high things […]

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  • Creed for Modern Thinkers

    2 minutes

    [Food for thought from Steve Turner:] Here is the creed for the modern thinker. We believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin. We believe everything is okay, as long as you don’t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt and to your best definition of knowledge. We believe in sex before, during and […]

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