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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: Bible

In teh Bginining wuz teh Wrd, OMG!1!!

The LOLcat Bible is sweeping teh interreligiouswebs, vastly popular among the ‘net nerd crowd - the same flock who follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster. In typical ironical fashion, these cyberdenizens rejoice around a lampoon of what can be profound.

I never converted to pastafarianism not because I don’t find it hilarious; I do. But, [...]

Master Chief is the New Covenant

I had a few addictions/afflictions during sophomore year, but none was more trivial than Halo. Sure, I saved the world of men and stuff, but all that salvation left my GPA in a world of pain. I never played Halo 2, mostly because I was off campus when it came out, and we [...]

Prodigal or Just Desperate?

If you’ve been around me lately, you’ve probably heard my grumblings about doing assorted oddjobs for my parents. It’s really a baseless whine; I get paid for it, which is more than I can say for most of the rest of what I do (with an amazing exception being brewing).
But as I was laboring [...]