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Weekend Compilations: my favorite blogs from this past week (6)
Welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations, a blog post where I share links to my favorite blog posts from the previous week. I am at the point in the semester where I am incredibly busy trying to finish my term papers. So, please forgive me for having Weekend Compilations a day late this… Continue reading
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Birds of Prey (Don’t Discuss Ethical Dilemmas)
I’m pretty burned out this week, so I’ve decided to share a poem I first wrote a few years ago. It has seen several iterations over the years, but the form it appears in here is the form in which it was published this year in ACU’s literary magazine, The Shinnery review. The other poems… Continue reading
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Election Compilation: a collection of my blog posts about the 2012 election
Well, today is the day after Election Day, which means it’s a day for reflection—both for thinking about what has happened and thinking about what will happen. I don’t have anything new or special to say today except that which I have already said. So, here is my collection of blog posts about the election.… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: Democracy
You don’t need me to tell you that the last year and a half has been annoying, exciting, troubling, and stressful. Candidates have been campaigning full time for a long time now, and the blow by blow “news” coverage has left all of us weary. We are tired of the false binary created by the… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilations: my favorite blogs from this past week (5)
Welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations, a blog post where I share links to my favorite blog posts from the previous week. Sunday: Chaplain Mike shares with us “The Campaign Ad We’ll Never See (Too Bad).” He writes, “ROMNEY: Well said, Mr. President. You are absolutely right. In the final analysis we may… Continue reading
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Why You Should Vote for a Third Party Candidate
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the way our binary political system stifles critical thinking, public scrutiny, and true differences among candidates. Establishment candidates always campaign toward the center so as to attract the “undecided voter.” A week ago, I wrote a post in which I explained that—while a Social Democrat—I would be voting for… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: Stories
I’ve learned to doubt, to find the questions deep within me and let them bubble to the surface. I’ve learned to not be afraid, to not retreat in fear to the safety of concrete walls and revealed truths. And part of this process is intellectual—it has to be. Graduate school requires it. I don’t write… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilations: my favorite blogs from this past week (4)
Welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations, a blog every weekend where I post my favorite blogs from around the internet from that particular week. Sunday: Carson T. Clark talks about “Contemporary American Christianity: Fiscal, Political Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.” He writes, “In their 2005 book, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American… Continue reading
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Who I am Voting for and Why (It’s neither Romney nor Obama)
You may want to read last Thursday’s post about our binary political system before reading this post if you haven’t already. In this post, I am less concerned about specific policies than I am about meta concerns: how the issues are framed, who does the framing, and why that is the case. I think it… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: New Paint
My tradition isn’t remotely high church, but my brother is studying for the Catholic priesthood, and so I’ve come into up close contact with a liturgical faith. Some days I long for a church tradition that more obviously embraces the sacraments than mine does. I don’t mean in the liturgical service itself—though sometimes I think… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilations: my favorite blogs from this past week (3)
Welcome to this week’s installment of Weekend Compilations. Sunday: Roger Olson gives his “Thoughts about ‘A Year of Biblical Womanhood’ by Rachel Held Evans.” He writes, Some complementarian bloggers are attacking it without reading it (based on what they’ve heard about it from others who may or may not have read it). This reminds me… Continue reading
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Our Binary Political System: Why Both Parties Don’t Want Us to Think
Aside from the talking heads on TV and the angry voices on the radio, all that I have heard these days about the election is something along the lines of, “I wish our political candidates could just get along. Why don’t they work on actually getting something done?” As if, somehow, taking any sort of… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: Interruptions
Most days we wake up without really recognizing the extraordinary circumstances in which we find ourselves—the wonder of our bodies, the miracle of the dawn. And we go through our days, repeating the same rhythms again and again, finding comfort in the repetition, in the wheel of infinite agains. And we often have hostile responses… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilations: my favorite blogs from this past week (2)
Welcome to my second edition of Weekend Compilations. You can find the first edition here. I have collected my favorite blogs from each day this past week to share with you. Sunday: Chaplain Mike over at Internet Monk talks about how “Worship is not Sex.” He writes, “Just to be clear, I think worship should… Continue reading
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Thankful Tuesday: Fire
There is something about fire, isn’t there? Something about the flickering warmth dancing and swaying among the ineffable shadows, awakening hazy memories of a time before—or a time to come—when humanity wandered the earth. Before (or after) the great domestication. * * * The past three days in Abilene were the first true days of… Continue reading
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Our Father
singing anthems of glory and songs to impress, I form words with my mouth loud and “convincing” to those marauding machines whose mechanistic noise exists only in the background, just some grand cog wheel forever turning without guide or direction or evaluation. such shallow perusing of the creative impulse results in a solely external projection:… Continue reading
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Weekend Compilation: my favorite blogs from this past week
As I’ve started to blog more (I’ve posted 14 blogs in the last 2 months!) I’ve decided to adopt some of the practices associated with successful blog people that I read. One practice a lot of bloggers have is to post, once a week (usually on the weekend), a collection of articles written by others… Continue reading
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Meaning
You know those days, right? The ones where everything is a personal attack on you: Your boss gives you an assignment you don’t like, and you know she did it on purpose, just to spite you. And now you have to start your day doing that. And those idiots who are so loud while you… Continue reading
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John the Baptist (Luke 1:68-79)
The ragged man sits in his jail cell surrounded by the scattered refuse left to him. The stuff they didn’t bother to take. And he hears their steps, coming ever closer. free from fear and saved from the hands of our foes He lifts head from the puddle of tears. his holy covenant remembered He… Continue reading
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Lord Let me Love
There are those angry voices out there, shouting that Jesus “demands obedience” and we need to get “radical” and if you are a “real” Christian then you aren’t a “nominal” Christian and that means you have an “urgency” to save souls while selling all that you own and giving it to the poor. Bullshit. “My… Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 