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Persuasion
04.28.03 | Permalink | 9 CommentsLike Richard Rorty, I’m not convinced that logic and argument are finally persuasive. Rationality is like the foundation and framing of a house. There are as many different rationalities as there are ideological houses–even if personal ideologies in some neighborhoods all look the same. The measure of a good rationality is whether or not it […]
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Catholic child told about doggy heaven, doggy hell
04.25.03 | Permalink | 14 CommentsNORTHAMPTON, MA—Three days after burying his beloved labrador retriever, Daniel MacNeil, 9, was told about doggy heaven and hell by his fourth-grade teacher, Sister Doris Behnke. “Don’t cry, Daniel. I’m sure Shiner was a very good doggy,” Behnke told the mourning child Tuesday. “He’s probably in Doggy Heaven right now, running through its big green […]
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Religious humanists & public intellectuals after the fall of New Babel
04.25.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Religious humanists & public intellectuals after the fall of New BabelGregory Wolfe writes of post-Christian public intellectuals in the introduction to the essay collectionThe New Religious Humanists: Despite the harshness of our cultural climate, a new generation of religious humanists is making its presence known. Many of the most dynamic of these thinkers were born a generation after the ones that experienced the divisiveness of […]
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“A harrowing experience…”
04.24.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on “A harrowing experience…”har·row \har-‘õ\ n : a cultivating tool that has spikes, spring teeth, or discs and is used esp. to pulverize and smooth the soil
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Helen Phares Hunter, 1916-2003
04.20.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsContinuing our venerable family tradition, my grandmother died early this Easter morning. Her husband died ten or fifteen years ago, exactly one month after Christmas. My other grandfather died on New Years Eve, and my other grandmother died the day after Christmas. She moved from Nebraska to an Oklahoma dairy farm when she was a […]
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Clothes make the psychiatric patient
04.16.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Clothes make the psychiatric patientCrazy Tracy is at it again. Nurse to the emotionally gifted, Crazy Tracy matches up your favorite psychiatric diagnoses with their unique fashion sense. And what about depression, my personal favorite? Well, we don’t care, really. Bathing, dressing, personal hygiene–just so much unnecessary trouble. C’mon, it’s not like we’re going to get out of bed! […]
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