December 2011
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Dude? →
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Quote of the Day
“Today, polls show Americans are much more inclined to put up a Christmas tree and decorations or go to a party than to attend religious services, even though they tend to see Christmas as a religious holiday.
“Perhaps it’s a bit puritanical to insist that believers dump their cherished family traditions to march off to church on Christmas morning. But it’s also...
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Dude →
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WatchThe Christian Life is not a Thomas Kinkade Painting.
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Football is Better than Football →
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Hymns from Ninevah: "Endurance at Christmas Time"
I know nearly nothing about these guys except that (1) they’re from Denmark and (2) their new Christmas/Advent album is already one of my favorites ever. (A Sufjan killer? I think maybe!) Having already puked today from reading the endless unnecessary superlatives in the Pitchfork Top 50 albums reviews, I won’t say anymore about it except get it.
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Pitchfork Top 50 | Bon Iver Not Surprisingly Best... →
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Christopher Hitchens is Dead. →
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Thankful for a Home
My daughter is just old enough now that she often offers up her own prayers at dinner and at bedtime. You’d be amazed what you learn about prayer from a three-year-old. The first time she prayed for many things. But one thing stuck out. ”God, thank you for our house.” Our house? I never thank God for that. Never. And yet my house is absolutely a gift from God.
Sad. →
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Quote of the Day
“Before I let Tebow go, I asked him if anyone after the game — coaches, players, execs — had said anything memorable to him. ‘Everybody was happy,” he said, ‘but I’ll tell you one thing that happened during the week that I remember … ‘
“Good, I thought. John Fox, maybe, sidling up to him and saying something sportingly profound like,...
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