OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
Here, too, Robert Putnam has a possible assimilation model. Hold onto your hat. It’s Christian evangelical megachurches. “In many large evangelical congregations,” he writes, “the participants constituted the largest thoroughly integrated gatherings w
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I heard this on my way to church, and it really… resonated much like the “sounding brass” (bronze vessels that amplified actors’ voices in the ancient theater of Corinth) mentioned in the reference link near the bottom.
NPR : The Holy Life of the Intellect
I believe that the human intellect is the closest thing we [...]
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On my way back home from Holy Moly today, I had my camera with me and stopped to take pictures of the nearby park, which was reclaimed from a wetland area when the subdivision was built 20 years or so ago. Whenever we get a lot of rain, it clearly shows “once a wetland, [...]
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Old rule still holds magic for stranded air travelers — chicagotribune.com
It served as a secret handshake, of sorts, between airlines and passengers for decades.Travelers whose flights were delayed, or who simply were running late, would sidle up to ticket counters and whisper, “Rule 240 me.” And the airline workers usually would oblige, putting them [...]
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