Category: Life
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Nazi Death Camps: Blurring the Lines Between Life and Death
We are publishing this article for Holocaust Remembrance Day. May their memories be for a blessing. Death camps represent, perhaps, the most important evidence for the planned extermination of the Jewish people. The death camp manufactured a single product: the speedy and efficient murder of world Jewry. Because of this, the Nazis blurred the lines…
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Simple Beauty, Simple Truth: A Hobbit’s View on Profit Motive
“I have found a place where some Shire folk of Middle-Earth must have emigrated. Surely some hobbit blood runs through these people’s veins.” Such were the thoughts in my head as I entered the Airbnb while vacationing in the region of my maternal ancestors. Zakopane, Poland is a tourist town nestled in the rolling foothills…
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St. Ignatius and Opportunity Costs
For millennia the family craft would dictate one’s career. The son of a farmer is expected to be a farmer, the son of the fisherman will become a fisherman, and the son of the carpenter will become a carpenter. Within the past century a new model of choosing your own career became the norm. You…
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Becoming Like Little Children
As I think back on my childhood I remember a time that seemed more magical, simple, and eternal. A restful Saturday would be a journey through imagination and play that would drag on and on until sleep inevitably won the day. A week felt like it would never end, and summer break was an eternity.…
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Freedom From Yourself
The Oxford English Dictionary defines freedom as “The state or fact of being free from servitude, constraint, inhibition, etc.; liberty.” Growing up and living in the US, I am constantly exposed to this definition of freedom, a definition in terms of license–a freedom to do whatever you want. By this understanding of freedom, one is…
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Commitment and Friendship
In my limited experience in this life I have noticed that there is a tendency to push against true intimacy with other people. In the realm of relationships and marriage a higher divorce rate and increasing break-up related suicide are symptoms of a deeper problem concerning a lack of real intimacy. While fear of the…
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Christian Marriage: An Analysis of Ephesians 5:22
Marital roles are important, but not as much as the marriage itself, the sacred union of two entirely separate entities into one body.
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Taking Abortion Seriously
There is no issue in American politics like abortion. There is no issue as divisive that affects as many as deeply as abortion. Every year, millions of lives will be impacted by abortion. Primarily, the impact falls on the mother and the ‘being’ in the womb. But also, the father, the grandparents, the siblings, the…
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Piece of Mind, Episode 01: Nintendo With Troy
Welcome to Piece of Mind! Accompany Jonathan as he waddles through mysterious conversations about life, living, and other stuff with friends, enemies, axes, and allies. Today, we have some conversation with Troy about Nintendo, video games, and childhood.
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Simplicity and Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is soon approaching and there is so much good food to look forward to in the upcoming days. Thanksgiving, much like the Sabbath, is a day on which we rest and look back on all that we are grateful for. Yet despite the myriad of things that we can say we are truly glad…