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When I Was A Boy In Belfast | The Irish Atheist
https://theirishatheist.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/when-i-was-a-boy-in-belfast
A blunt review on American and European religion. Meet the Irish Atheist. October 27, 2014. When I Was A Boy In Belfast. Many of my posts are responsive. I hear about an event or incident or encounter an argument and I respond on my blog with my thoughts. This is not one of those posts. This post is a love letter to my favourite city in the world, Belfast. Am I going to turn a corner and die because someone with a religious-political grudge wants to make a statement? Where did that come from? But they we...
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circles | Hännah Ettinger
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Wine & Marble. I think we must have. I’ll keep running. The trees remember me. The ground still tells me stories. Is this hers or mine? I had to stop eating that, your body might too. We laugh in cycles. It’s good. But I have no borders. Even when I close my door, my new phone buzzes and chirps and my mind becomes a set of tiny spinning gears and I chase the circuit around this circle and into the next and into the one below before getting tossed up to that one just up there. Larr; Prev post. And know th...
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How (Not) to be Secular [book review]
http://religionforbreakfast.com/2015/04/06/how-not-to-be-secular-book-review
How (Not) to be Secular [book review]. April 6, 2015. This is a 3 part reflection on James K.A Smith’s book How (Not) To Be Secular. Hardly a month passes without HuffPost Religion publishing another piece on the decline of religion. Few can argue with the data. Religious affiliation and attendance have indeed declined in recent decades in the West (not worldwide, as I have argued elsewhere. But how should we interpret these studies? How (Not) To Be Secular. If by “religion” we mean the great...As Smith ...
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When Tissue is a Person: How Thomas Gray Helped Me Think About Planned Parenthood - Nate Pyle
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When Tissue is a Person: How Thomas Gray Helped Me Think About Planned Parenthood. July 28, 2015. His name is Thomas Gray. Thomas was born with a birth defect, anencephaly, that caused parts of his brain to not form. Born to Sarah and Ross Gray, Thomas lived for six days before he died. Because the condition was discovered during the pregnancy, Ross and Sarah had prepared for his short life and made arrangement for his organs to be donated. Did it matter that they donated his organs? Sarah wasn’t c...
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The Troll From Under the Bridge: A Response to Seth Crocker | The Irish Atheist
https://theirishatheist.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/the-troll-from-under-the-bridge-a-response-to-seth-crocker
A blunt review on American and European religion. Meet the Irish Atheist. January 22, 2015. The Troll From Under the Bridge: A Response to Seth Crocker. This is a self-portrait of the Irish Atheist. No, really. Sometimes the troll from under the bridge has something to say. Sometimes the troll from under the bridge just wants to be heard over the sound of the trip-trip-trapping. Sometimes the troll from under the bridge never wanted to be there in the first place. I’m here because all of my life, p...
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to the boy on the couch | A Real Rattlesnake
https://arealrattlesnake.com/2015/04/11/to-the-boy-on-the-couch
Christianity, culture, lament, and what happens after sure faith. To the boy on the couch. By arealrattlesnake on April 11, 2015. Last year, my friend Zach. Invited me to do something really scary. He asked if I would share some of my story as part of the Rainbow Letters. Here’s my first letter, to the boy on the co uch. You will always remember the day your mom sat you and your sisters down on the living room couch. After this, the memories flash by in a mélange of uncomfortable blurs. There are mor...
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New Series: What’s The Alternative? | micky dewitt
https://mickydewitt.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/new-series-whats-the-alternative
New Series: What’s The Alternative? July 17, 2015. July 17, 2015. By now, most of my readers know that I don’t participate at all in politics. (If this is new for you, you can check out my position here. My hope is to approach the world from a Kingdom mindset. Kingdom meaning: How can I follow Jesus through these things? Jesus said to love God and neighbor. Then He said that everything else hangs on those two things. Okay, that seems simple enough. But what is love? And what a Kingdom perspective on abor...
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Naming the Master – Zach Hoag
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April 25, 2014. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Emotional abuse is an actual thing. I know because I was abused this way by an authority figure for the better part of my life. Paul Walker an...
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It’s been how long? | micky dewitt
https://mickydewitt.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/its-been-how-long
It’s been how long? June 27, 2016. June 29, 2016. Sometimes the only way to combat writer’s block is to just. write. There I said it. Over the last year, I have gone through many more transitions. I feel like people are going to get sick of my ever changing ways, but I can’t help it. I have to follow my gut. I’m different. again. ugh. But I have missed the world. And I have missed sharing my voice. That’s just where I am at. There are other unfortunate circumstances where I am learning to stand up for my...
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Surviving Narcissistic Abuse and Victim Blaming | micky dewitt
https://mickydewitt.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/surviving-narcissistic-abuse-and-victim-blaming
Surviving Narcissistic Abuse and Victim Blaming. August 10, 2015. August 10, 2015. Leaving your abuser is only the first step towards healing and the road to healing can be long, difficult, and very painful. There is always collateral damage along the way and that damage can prolong recovery. Here are some things that most victims of abuse feel at some point or another and in varying degrees. For those who long to support survivors, these are some things you should be aware of. 8230;if she hadn’t b...
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