November 2008
6 posts
The 8th Annual Heuertz Family Star Wars Nativity →
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She's Gonna Be Mad...
So my sweet wife has one of the coolest names ever.
Phileena.
Since I was an Ancient Biblical Languages minor in college (seriously), I used to tell her that it meant “Fair Flower of the Sea” in Greek. I lied.
It actually does have Greek roots and could loosely be translated, “Lover of Humanity.” Which would be a true description of her.
What a great name. Seriously....
“Unlikely allies? At first sight Jean Vanier and Stanley Hauerwas seem unlikely...”
– by John Swinton in the introduction to Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness (Resources for Reconciliation) by Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier
Re-Imagining a Failed Post-Civil Rights America
We woke up in a different world today.
I confess. Though I voted for Brent Anderson, when it was announced that Barack Obama was elected our next president, I cried. And as I sat in my townhouse on North 33rd Street, a single tear rolled down my cheek about every 3-4 minutes for at least 2 hours.
Tonight, I am still overwhelmed.
Often I comment that I believe we live in a failed post-civil...
The Old Schooler :: Socialized Education in...
During the presidential campaign process there has been a lot of talk about universal healthcare and socialism. And it makes some people really mad. And sometimes scared.
Technically the USA has socialized a number of our social sectors.
The recent financial bailout of several banks and lending institutions was in a sense at least a soft-nationalization of some of our countries largest financial...