Category: Culture
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Confused in the UK: Rugby, Cricket, and Donald Trump
Read more: Confused in the UK: Rugby, Cricket, and Donald TrumpThe Carroll family is beginning our 4th year here in the UK and there are still a few things that confuse me. It might be that I never took enough time to delve into the mechanics of these things, maybe someday I will. But for now I’d rather rant about their inaccessible (in my eyes)…
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Drunk at Church
Read more: Drunk at ChurchThe “potluck” is one of the greatest things about going to a small church. For those who have never experienced it, it is a full range buffet with only the most delectable foods made by the moms and grandmas of your church. Tables are set up so that all of the congregation may have their…
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The Virtue of Articulacy
Read more: The Virtue of ArticulacyWhen I was in high school, our music classes were in danger of being cancelled. I’ll never forget the night I played fly-on-the-wall at a school board meeting while the powerful adults discussed the future of our program. Silent the entire time, I went home that night and cried – I had failed to speak…
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My Article on Harry Potter is Now in Print in “Ravenclaw Reader”!
Read more: My Article on Harry Potter is Now in Print in “Ravenclaw Reader”!At long last the edited volume from the Harry Potter conference held at the University of St Andrews in 2012 is now in print and you can get your copy of Ravenclaw Reader here! The conference was a complete success, being one of the most enjoyable and stimulating academic settings I’ve ever been in. It…
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P.O.D.’s New Album, The Awakening, is the Worst Album of my Life
Read more: P.O.D.’s New Album, The Awakening, is the Worst Album of my LifeJust the other week I was walking around St Andrews and I bumped into a pastor friend here in town. We stopped to chat for a minute and he asked me what I think of P.O.D.’s new album. WHAT?! There’s a new album?? is what immediately went through my head. And so I ran back…
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The Hayne Plane Is Taking Off
Read more: The Hayne Plane Is Taking OffToday is August 25th and that means that I am exactly one month away from submitting my PhD thesis. It’s a crazy feeling to be so close to finishing. It’s an even crazier feeling to consider all the work that I still want to do before I submit the thing! A friend recently told me…
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49ers 2015: Offseason from Hell
Read more: 49ers 2015: Offseason from HellWelp, Aldon Smith got arrested again. And now he’s been cut from the San Francisco 49ers. If you haven’t been paying attention to the 49ers this offseason, you’ve missed a remarkably hellish nightmare for fans like me. And this is like the icing on the cake. Except the cake is serious rubbish and the icing…
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6 Signs You Suffer From Critiqueomania (A disposition unique to scholars)
Read more: 6 Signs You Suffer From Critiqueomania (A disposition unique to scholars)At the time of writing this blog I am sitting outside of the secondary venue at the Keswick Conference in the Lake District of England waiting for the main speaker to begin his sermon. I just listened to an older white guy warm up the crowd with a vigorously spoken word concerning God’s preeminence over…
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Foodie Favorites in North Orange County
Read more: Foodie Favorites in North Orange CountyFood is one of the joys of life and food is a great way for people to come together. Being Filipina-American, I grew up going to large family gatherings, where eating was the main event, as my extended family would spend all day eating around the buffet line full of different Filipino and American dishes….
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Kings Kaleidoscope, Felix Culpa, and Nirvana
Read more: Kings Kaleidoscope, Felix Culpa, and NirvanaThanks to Logan’s post a few weeks ago, I have been introduced to an absolutely fabulous worship band called Kings Kaleidoscope (hereafter KK). If you’ve never heard of them, go buy their album, Becoming Who We Are, right now. I did the very same thing after reading Logan’s review and I am so glad that…