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Feb 8, 2012, 1:27 pm
From my latest Strange Days column:
“You know the type — Enlightened Ones who believe they can make the world a better place by meddling in other people’s lives.
“Sure, they have good intentions. Shoot, they might even have great intentions.
“But their means just don’t make sense, and... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 9:13 pm
Sheldon Richman cites Nobel laureate economist Edmund Phelps in this insightful article.
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Feb 2, 2012, 5:53 pm
From the latest Strange Days column:
This reminds me of my career as a high school smuggler.
Back in the days when the Miami Vice TV program ruled the United States, I went to a strict Baptist high school in Raleigh, N.C.
This was during the 1980s. While both law enforcement officials and popular... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 9:22 pm
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Jan 31, 2012, 10:03 am
Two short quotations offering food for thought:
Admirers of nailed-down definitions and tidy categories may not like to hear it, but all writers and readers are full-time imaginers, all prose is imaginative, and fiction and nonfiction are just two anarchic shades of ink swirling around the same mys... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 9:45 pm
Preliminary speculations — not from an expert witness — but from a mind that wandered and wondered during a church service:
Your Jesus is constructed from your interpretations of Bible passages about Jesus, your imaginative appropriation of Jesus, and your experiences related to an intentiona... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 9:24 pm
“The rich are a class of clones, an elite cabal of likeminded individuals, an assembly bonded in groupthink, a gaggle of Republican gangsters. Therefore, George Soros isn’t rich.” Read the rest here.
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Jan 4, 2012, 10:15 pm
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Nov 29, 2011, 6:13 pm
Here's a bad idea: A smoking ban in Myrtle Beach bars.
As WBTW-News 13's Mason Snyder reported tonight, "Next month Smoke Free Horry plans to present Myrtle Beach City Council with research its done that shows the negative health impact second hand smoke has."
If smoking is legal, busi... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2011, 11:42 am
Jess, the woman who cuts my hair, gave me a flier about an upcoming Art, Car, Bike, and Stunt Show set up to benefit a local cancer patient.
Here's what the flier says:
"La Familia: A Benefit" hostedy the The Elite Company will be held Saturday, December 10, 2011, at SBB 4 Corners in Murrell... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2011, 12:50 pm
First, let us direct our attention to Paste Magazine, where Josh Jackson has blogged a review of 10 winter ales, which you can read right here.
Second, allow me to talk about some of the new and winter brews we'll be able to find in the Myrtle Beach area -- and I talk about them in my lat... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2011, 2:34 pm
Don't miss the Crafty Rooster Beer Festival in Conway this weekend! The fest will be held at the Farmers Market (not Crafty Rooster) at 217 Laurel Street, Conway.
Hours run 5-10:30 p.m. today (Friday) and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday (tomorrow, Nov. 12).
What better thing could you... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 10:30 pm
Then I would love for you to participate in my upcoming cover story for the Weekly Surge. Please email me at beerpour@yahoo.com, share your phone number, and tell me when the best time to call would be. Thanks! Colin Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 6:31 pm
Wendy Duncan, author of I Can’t Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult, contacted me today to let me know about an upcoming documentary on MSNBC.
“Mind Over Mania,” which will be broadcast at 10 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 6, 2011), will focus on four young women who were involved with Teen Mania. Th... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 7:01 pm
This afternoon I briefly talked with Caitlin Horrocks after her reading at Coastal Carolina University.
Horrocks read “At The Zoo,” an incredible, multiple point-of-view short story from her collection This is Not Your City. I wonder if “At The Zoo” — with its fully rendered characters, ... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 4:19 pm
“…But hang on a sec there, Prof. I thought your argument was that neither the God of Israel nor the gods of the Canaanites nor any other gods who might come forward to compete for our worshipful attention actually exists or ever did exist. If not existing is count one of the indictment against H... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 12:59 pm
Elizabeth Swann earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University in Charlotte. Recent publications include in Southern Poetry Review, Penwood Review, storySouth, Southern Women’s Review, Red Clay Review, and the anthology Luck; A Collection of Fact, Fiction, Incantation and Verse. She was... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 4:15 pm
In case you missed it, read Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens’s New York Times op/ed piece, “The Evangelical Rejection of Reason.”
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Oct 15, 2011, 6:47 pm
The hostess is a beer maid at Liberty Steakhouse & Brewery at Broadway at the Beach.
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Oct 15, 2011, 6:40 pm
Today, the hostess at Liberty Steakhouse & Brewery in Myrtle Beach was dressed like a German beer maid.
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Oct 14, 2011, 1:40 pm
I realized something about the 12-point claim that Bishop Mark Lawrence (Diocese of South Carolina) has left the doctrine and discipline (and worship?) of The Episcopal Church:
The people who assembled those 12 points would not pass my ENGL 101 class. That would be the one I teach to freshmen. Lawr... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 11:33 am
Unsettling trend: Millennials Have No Moral Framework | Patrol – A review of religion and the modern world.
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Oct 13, 2011, 8:15 am
Proving that certain "liberals" aren't truly liberal . . .Officials of The Episcopal Church take new action to punish free speech | Commerce & Arts:
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Oct 12, 2011, 8:13 pm
So I’m no theologian. What I am, however, is a former newspaper section editor and a veteran of 10 years in the newspaper business. One thing we journalists learn to value, very quickly, is freedom of speech for all, in all situations, and one thing we quickly learn to notice is censorship.
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Oct 12, 2011, 12:40 pm
Fortunately, when I have bad beer in the future, I’ll have a use for it. My Dad emailed me a link for an online list of household uses for beer, like drinking enough of it to drown out the to-do list of my wife and the whining of my three daughters.
Just kidding. One of the household u... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2011, 11:16 pm
This pastor on a television ad says the Bobble will give me hope.
Gotta read that Bobble.
I don’t think anyone’s NFL Bobble has proven to be a good luck charm.
So sometimes, I wonder about the sources of the Bobble. Sure, it’s bobbling now, but will it always bobble? When I am old, will it ... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2011, 6:31 pm
I'm drinking New South Oktoberfest at this event: bit.ly/dmboktob
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Oct 7, 2011, 2:29 pm
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David Hadju, blogging on Bob Dylan for The New Republic:
Dylan … has written “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” “Visions of Johanna,” “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “Idiot Wind,” and enough other works of fiery imagination to just about justify his progressive canoni... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 10:17 pm
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This video interview with Flannery O’Connor’s friend Louise Abbot provides some new, personal insights into the Southern Catholic writer. Click here to see the HD video.
For some brief, additional insight into O’Connor, see my interview with Peter Augu... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 8:45 pm
Press release:
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’,” Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Reformed theologian and politician, famously exclaimed.
Kuyper has long been admir... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 1:53 pm
Human willpower doesn’t have the best relationship with Christianity. Human will has been described as rebellion against God, and pastors throughout history have spoken of willpower’s inadequacy for obtaining salvation.
All that is true enough in Christian theology. However, much of what... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 8:53 pm
In 23 countries, restrictions on religious practice increased between 2006 and 2009. Read Rising Restrictions on Religion – Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
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Oct 4, 2011, 12:33 am
In this video clip, Dr. Ben Witherington addresses Dr. Bart Ehrman’s treatment (especially in his book Jesus, Interrupted) of contradictions within the New Testament.
Witherington raises an interesting question: In the first-century, Greco-Roman context, how much freedom did the ancient writers h... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2011, 12:18 am
How cool to see some friends from my Sun News days! Here's where to go if you want to join us -- bit.ly/mbokto
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