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Plainclothes: 2015-12-20
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Tuesday, December 22, 2015. Coming to a Theater Near You: A Christmas Apocalypse. My children have had an unusual influence on my views since they began, one by one, to pass through adolescence. I admit that they have shaped my reception of certain popular cultural artifacts I don’t know much about, mainly because I don’t care enough. Coming to a Theatre Near You. More recently, both my sons, now squarely in high school, the target audience for Hunger Games. I wish I ...
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Is Christian Fiction Dying? - The Steve Laube Agency
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Helping to Change the World.Word by Word. Interview with Steve Laube. Selling What You Write. Is Christian Fiction Dying? Is Christian Fiction Dying? January 28, 2014. Last year, a couple Christian publishers stopped publishing fiction. Some publishers are nervous about it and in a wait-and-see mode. Others are excited about growth potential. The answer to the title question is no, but it is certainly interesting to explore the reason behind such widely diverse opinions on the subject. Limited number of ...
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Plainclothes: 2016-01-24
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Wednesday, January 27, 2016. Reflection on Words We Work With. Early Monday morning, I was thinking about something that I doubt ever crosses the minds of the gainfully employed. I was thinking not just about work, but also about language at work, especially language as it is used in different settings. T he Words of My Job. As I said, the word doesn’t mean that now. I’ve even been on job interviews where I was asked “What are your passions? Old and New Passions.
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Plainclothes: 2016-03-20
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Saturday, March 26, 2016. For All the Days In Between. Today is unusual. It is the Saturday of what Christians celebrate as Holy Week. Growing up Catholic, I learned to think of the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter as a time for silence, but a silence that does not necessarily lead to meditation. It seemed as close as I might get to the Zen idea of nothing. The difference seems to be the presence now of hope. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Plainclothes: 2016-10-30
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Sunday, October 30, 2016. A Mathematical Reflection of Little Significance before the Election. With less than two weeks before the election, I have been turning my thoughts more and more to other things. I’m just very tired of the way this one has spiraled downward. I do know the mythology we are told as children. “Anyone can become president.” However, this “anyone can do it” ideology has worn thin. Anyone? That experience convinced me that I never wanted to be a pr...
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Plainclothes: Presidential Debates and the Failure of Argument
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Thursday, September 29, 2016. Presidential Debates and the Failure of Argument. My Humanities class recently finished discussion of Antigone,. We began with Sophocles, the ancient dramatist, because I have a theory that Antigone,. Or at least Sophocles' version of it, is concerned with rhetoric. In addition to being concerned with the hubris. Of primitive democracy in Athens. In the end, there are three suicides and one broken old man. The other night, the moderator's...
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Plainclothes: 2016-08-28
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Can We Read the Bible? Years ago, during the first spring season after the tragedy of 9/11, I participated in a week long seminar with colleagues at the college where I taught. The text we had come together to study was the Qur'an. In translation. I understood that this meant we were reading what the Islamic world would consider a "commentary," not a translation- certainly not the Qur'an. Here I found many stories I knew, of Abraham, Joseph, ...
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Plainclothes: It Can't be 1980 All Over Again
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Tuesday, December 27, 2016. It Can't be 1980 All Over Again. I sense it as uneasiness. Not all change is good. But it does always require adjustment. Too many people I talk with today don't care to hear the news. They don't have details. They have an alternate view. Everyone has his or her talking points taken from favorite columnists and TV shows. So what is ahead? Some say we get the leaders we deserve. Change is ahead. It is coming. You can expect some adjustments.
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Plainclothes: 2016-04-24
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Writing, creativity, faith, mystery. Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Routines and Other Routes. I suffer from too much routine. Routine keeps me thinking one way. It keeps me business-minded, focused on the same old world and the same old possibilities, always ready and able to see other people in reduced terms. Routine allows me to finish things at work. Most of the time, routine is nothing more than the usual baleful plodding that every half-conscious person must bear daily. No Paradoxes or Parallels. I don&#...
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