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John Grisham wrote a book called Skipping Christmas , which was later made into the movie, Christmas with the Kranks . It tells the tale of a couple, Luther and Nora Krank, who decided to go against the established traditions of their suburban community...

Damon DeLillo We were all taught to believe that there used to be a ministry golden era (sometime in the 50s) when people had more time and they were more committed to church. It was an era when Mom stayed home and served weekly in the Sunday school...

Somewhere, everywhere, people are connecting socially. From the beginning of time and throughout the scriptures, God’s people patterned their lives around celebration, feasts, social gatherings, levity, story-telling, eating, drinking, laughter, and...

I was reviewing and revising one of my older blog entries in which Luther claimed he was superior to Augustine and Ambrosius (this entry also). I followed an old link back to a now defunct web-page making the same claim and also adding a number of other...

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (this is a book for workers but there is a lot we can draw from it) My interest, borne out by the empirical cases that follow, is in understanding the power structures of ordinary...