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Bro, Please Cover Your Emotional Cleavage!
Read more: Bro, Please Cover Your Emotional Cleavage!“It seems like every girl who I have a deep conversation with ends up being attracted to me,” my guy friend told me over lunch. “It makes it really difficult to be friends with women, when they all seem to start liking me. But, it seems that they are only attracted to this one part…
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Spiritual growth through heresy
Read more: Spiritual growth through heresyThere are two ways (in my mind) in which heresy spurs spiritual growth. For the purposes of this post, I will use the word heresy in extremely broad terms. One of the ways merriam-webster.com defines heresy is: An opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards As I…
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Episode 1 : Corinna Nicolaou of “One None Gets Some”
Read more: Episode 1 : Corinna Nicolaou of “One None Gets Some”Hello and welcome to the inaugural episode of The Two Cities Podcast. It’s our hope that the podcast will be a place where any one listening can find something that will challenge or stimulate their thinking. As with the written portion of the site, we do think that your involvement as a reader can prove…
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Gravitating to Purpose
Read more: Gravitating to PurposeNormally at this time of year, I’m plugging my ears to the conversations of my friends, as they pick at and detail all their favorite details of this year’s horror films (I’ll just saw I’m glad that the Saw series isn’t continuing on the way The Land Before Time has). With regard to film, I…
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Death by Natural Causes
Read more: Death by Natural Causes“Such is the natural and inevitable tendency of the best constituted governments. If Sparta and Rome have perished, what state can hope to endure for ever? If we wish to form a durable constitution, let us, then, not dream of making it eternal. In order to succeed we must not attempt the impossible, nor flatter…
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Fatherhood is Difficult
Read more: Fatherhood is DifficultBeing a father of boys is difficult. Sure there are the annoying things: having to listen to the song “What Does a Fox Say?” over and over, constantly reminding them the living room is not the place to perfect their football Brazilian Flick, having to explain why it is inappropriate to have their hands down…
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The Two Cities Podcast Episode 1 Preview
Read more: The Two Cities Podcast Episode 1 PreviewMake sure you check out The Two Cities Friday October 11th to catch our interview with writer and thinker Corinna Nicolaou. Her project One None Gets Some has been garnering a lot of attention lately and in this episode of the podcast, we discuss, among other things, how the project came to be, how she deals with…
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Dining with the Divine
Read more: Dining with the DivineA knock at the door. A pitiful figure stands, wrapped in a tired cloth and trembling in the cold. At your welcoming hand the figure reclines at your table, where you both dine and subsequently share stories of times past. As the newly-befriended guest prepares to leave, the beggar’s cloth is cast aside and the…
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Comedians and Prophets
Read more: Comedians and ProphetsWhen I was in junior high, I had aspirations to be a stand-up comedian. I began to write my own jokes (they were terrible), practice my impersonations (I had two, Yoda and Gollum), and read comedy theory (which didn’t make me funnier). My dreams persisted about into high school, partially buoyed by my participation in…
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Citizenship: New Creation in an Old World
Read more: Citizenship: New Creation in an Old WorldThe American government has (partially) shut down, and the internet is buzzing! Is this a breakdown of democracy? Are the Republicans acting like spoiled children, having lost the game but refusing to give up the ball. Or is it the Democrats fault, shoving through some unrealistic piece of trash and then insisting it be implemented?…