• Christian Ethics

    Misogynistic Institutions and the Politics of Liberation

    October 25th, 2008
    I want to begin this post by saying that as an undergrad student at OCC, I love that school. I would highly recommend OCC to those wishing to get an undergrad degree in exegesis and biblical studies. OCC has much to do with the student/Christian/person I am today, and it is at OCC where I have adopted all of my thinking, even if some of that thinking is ‘non-canonical’ or unorthodox at that sc

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  • Politics

    Last Minute Voter

    November 3rd, 2008
    Alright, I would like some input here (I'm sure it will mostly be from Thom, if he can sacrifice precious time away from that big test he's got). Man, Tuesday can not be here sooner.  I need to start doing homework again. But anyway, I am courting the Nader question for the first time since the real campaigns began.  I have always had issues with Obama (he's hawkish about Afghanistan, his

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  • Social Criticism

    Let Them Eat Clay

    September 26th, 2008
      In my Healthy Relationships course, we do a little class “social” exercise every week, in which three people write down answers to five questions, and then the answers are read, and the class needs to guess who wrote each answer. It is an exercise that a cynic like me finds incredibly dull, but the rest of the class seems to like it alright. In any case, one of the questions is: “Wha

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  • Theology

    Jesus Thinks You're Cute

    October 26th, 2008
    I have been going, the last month or so, to a church with Baptist background, a church outside of my own (short) tradition (I have only been a Christian for five years or so, and was not raised in the Church). It is, I guess, your average seeker-sensitive church filled with middle-class white people. And I don't know if this is normative in churches of that kind, but the last three weeks hav

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