Tag: faith
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J D Vance, the Truth, and Political Violence
We all know the Vice-President has frequently had a slight(or more)issue with the truth. To use only recent memory, we can see it ranges from the ludicrous(immigrants eating animals in Ohio)to the seriously disturbing and dangerous(an out & out claim, in the wake of the Kirk tragedy, that the left is far more involved in…
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Shock and confusion
I had been planning on writing on something else soon. Perhaps I still will. But I was grabbed by the story out of TN which has been presumably been widely read over the last few days. You may be familiar with it. I mean, of course, the TN execution of Byron Black and the ironies,…
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Ambiguity, Passion, Excellence and Secrets
“The Martyred” by Richard Kim, published by George Braziller, 1964 “The Amen Corner” by James Baldwin, 1954 I am not sure why I chose to begin reading Richard Kim’s “The Martyred” a few weeks ago. I guess it was partly because my wife has a paperback of his later book, “The Innocent” which I see…
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