Reflections on Band of Brothers

Rather reluctantly, I’ve been watching through the Band of Brothers series with Dave. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a series that ran on HBO a few years ago. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, it follows an airborne company that happened to be at a lot of key places [...]

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I feel bad for Paris

And seriously, this is a point of personal growth for me.  Paris is not just an airhead, or an airheaded celebrity, or even a pampered girl who needs to give up the celebrity act already.  She’s a human being, and a human being who has been treated shabbily over the last week or so.
I don’t [...]

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I hope for her

This makes me so sad.
 
Some excerpts:

“If people know that I’ve converted to Christianity, they might take the law into their own hands. If they are not broadminded, they might take a stone and throw it at me.”
Maria – not her real name – is a young Malaysian woman who has lived a [...]

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Social Justice in our own country

If you know me, you know that social justice is something I care about, but I do it quietly.  I’m not usually the one out there jumping on bandwagons and convincing others to come with me.  I’m posting this here because  awareness and caring about these sorts of things has been an outgrowth of spiritual [...]

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