Posts from the ‘Current events’ Category

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  Unliking Facebook

  February 17th, 2012 | Pop goes the culture, Slider, The looming crisis | Grace | 25384 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fslider-2%2Funliking-facebook%2FUnliking+Facebook2012-02-17+22%3A48%3A12Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2538

  I go back and forth with Face­book, like a lot of peo­ple (Steve, for one). I was typ­i­cally late get­ting into it and since then I seem to always either be excited about the good stuff or fed up with the bad. It’s a way to keep up with peo­ple I don’t see much anymore, […]

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  H H S Ruling follow-up: Obama winks

  February 13th, 2012 | Culture gone mad, Current events, Just my humble opinion, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Slider | Grace | 25431 Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fslider-2%2Fh-h-s-ruling-follow-up-obama-winks%2FH+H+S+Ruling+follow-up%3A+Obama+winks2012-02-13+02%3A26%3A46Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2543

  The per­cep­tion is that Obama’s sup­posed com­pro­mise on his ill-received HHS rul­ing amounted to him capit­u­lat­ing to reli­gious oppo­si­tion. But if he gave in, why do I feel so insulted?

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  Cutting through conspiracies with Occam’s Razor

  November 23rd, 2011 | Culture gone mad, Current events, Just my humble opinion, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 2497No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-gone-mad%2Fcutting-through-conspiracies-with-occams-razor%2FCutting+through+conspiracies+with+Occam%27s+Razor2011-11-23+22%3A25%3A29Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2497

  Watched a fas­ci­nat­ing His­tory Chan­nel pro­gram last night on the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion and the flurry of con­spir­a­cies that have per­sisted about it. I found this inter­est­ing, because I did get a lit­tle caught up in the study of the incon­sis­ten­cies — cour­tesy of a silly lit­tle do-it-yourself JFK con­spir­acy “kit” I came across in the […]

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  Stealing from those taking communion

  June 16th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2340No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fstealing-from-those-taking-communion%2FStealing+from+those+taking+communion2011-06-16+18%3A24%3A19Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2340

  Filed under ‘How Low Can You Go?’ this from the ABC Web­page for Hous­ton: Police say there’s a woman steal­ing from purses in the mid­dle of church ser­vices all over the Hous­ton area and some peo­ple may not even real­ize they’ve fallen vic­tim to her. Sheriff’s deputies believe she has tar­geted vic­tims across the city and […]

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  Meaningful or meaningless?

  May 30th, 2011 | Current events | Grace | 23202 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fmeaningful-or-meaningless%2FMeaningful+or+meaningless%3F2011-05-30+21%3A48%3A23Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2320

  Work­ing on an edi­to­r­ial car­toon for Memo­r­ial Day (which I’ll include at bot­tom), I came across this short video trib­ute to those who died in wartime, and was touched by the evoca­tive images and footage. But there’s more divi­sion on this issue than we always care to admit. When the pho­tos of Arling­ton Ceme­tery came […]

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  New Rapture date … and a Protestant problem

  May 24th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 23154 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fnew-rapture-date-and-a-protestant-problem%2FNew+Rapture+date+...+and+a+Protestant+problem2011-05-24+21%3A10%3A56Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2315

  Well, shucks. The Rap­ture didn’t hap­pen last Sat­ur­day. As I told Word­Mama, I’m kind of relieved to hear it, actu­ally. What if the Rap­ture DID hap­pen, and you’re one of the Left­Be­hinds? You’d get all sweaty like the guys in the Chick tracts. And in case you hadn’t heard, Harold Camp­ing took another look at […]

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  Joplin tornado: Who ya gonna call?

  May 24th, 2011 | Current events, Just a slice of heaven, Videos worth sharing | Grace | 23093 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fjoplin-tornado-who-ya-gonna-call%2FJoplin+tornado%3A+Who+ya+gonna+call%3F2011-05-24+18%3A47%3A11Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2309

  Had some friends who weren’t sure, so I’ll assure any­one out there who’s con­cerned: Our part of Mis­souri didn’t get blown away in Sunday’s tor­na­dos. Joplin is hours away from us, and — as it so hap­pened — Greg and I were in Con­necti­cut, so the wind would’ve had to REALLY be some­thing for us […]

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  Save the date: Rapture will come Saturday

  May 16th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Politics and Current Events, The looming crisis, Uncategorized | Grace | 23056 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Funcategorized%2Fsave-the-date-rapture-will-come-saturday%2FSave+the+date%3A+Rapture+will+come+Saturday2011-05-16+19%3A31%3A46Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2305

  Accord­ing to 89-year-old evan­gel­i­cal Harold Camp­ing, all the faith­ful will be Rap­tured at 6pm on Sat­ur­day, May 21. Seems like news you could use, if only to make the appro­pri­ate deci­sions re: dessert & alco­hol con­sump­tion on Fri­day.  Camp­ing has used “com­plex math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­las” to arrive at that date — they’re the same for­mu­las that […]

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  Happy 63rd birthday, Israel

  May 14th, 2011 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 2303No Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fhappy-63rd-birthday-israel%2FHappy+63rd+birthday%2C+Israel2011-05-14+22%3A35%3A59Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2303

  Today, May 14, is the 63rd anniver­sary of the “rebirth” of Israel. After all the thou­sands of years since the nation was first founded, it is still a rev­o­lu­tion­ary place. Men­tion­ing the word “Israel” is enough to get you into debates in some cir­cles and to hear his­toric (some­times ancient) hero­ics or mis­deeds invoked as […]

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  Mourning one who left intelligence behind

  May 2nd, 2011 | Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 22703 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Fpolitics-and-current-events%2Fcurrent-events%2Fmourning-one-who-left-intelligence-behind%2FMourning+one+who+left+intelligence+behind2011-05-02+17%3A02%3A03Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2270

  If you’ve been exult­ing over the news that Osama bin­Laden was killed, wel­come to the club. If you’ve then felt a twinge over exult­ing over the death of any human, join the club. Though he orches­trated the death of thou­sands and wanted to kill tens of thou­sands more, some of the expres­sions of cel­e­bra­tion at […]

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