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• Dreaming of a Black Xmas

  

  By my best reckoning, Thanksgiving has not yet taken place this year. Since Halloween, such as it was, is now over, we must still be in November. Read more

  The 18 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• Substance of Faith

  

  Every once in a very great while, faith is rewarded. I’m not talking about the faith that is bound up in black leather, inaccessible to realists who struggle... Read more

  The 07 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• Holy Gobblers

  

  I wonder if this is how religions get started. Yesterday President Obama continued the lighthearted tradition of pardoning two turkeys prior to Thanksgiving. Read more

  The 22 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• The Pope Says Jesus Was Born Years Earlier Than Thought

  By Nick Squires, Rome The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several... Read more

  The 30 November 2012 by   Stjohnpa
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• Bedrock

  

  Sadly it is a rare occasion to read a truly stupendous book. There are lots of wonderful books in the libraries of the world, great and small. Read more

  The 13 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• Hard to Digest

  

  Sweeny Todd has never been one of my favorite shows, but the dark humor and gratuitous bloodshed made it seem somehow appropriate as a November movie after a... Read more

  The 05 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• November’s Vampires

  

  It may have been the year without a Halloween here in the northeast coastal region of the United States, but it looks like some of the spirit has persisted... Read more

  The 09 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• Gonad Make Disciples

  

  The funny thing about authority is that when it counts those who have it are often afraid to use it. So yesterday the “mother church” (if that honorific still... Read more

  The 21 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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• Prisoners of War

  A group of Navy SEALs were performing a covert operation, freeing hostages from a building is some dark part of the world. They stormed into the room where the... Read more

  The 13 November 2012 by   24grace
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• True Myth

  

  A friend of mine, I am glad to see, has started a blog. I’ve mentioned K. Marvin Bruce (“Marvin”) before on my blog, but his situation is such that job and... Read more

  The 08 November 2012 by   Steveawiggins
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