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the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.

ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.

overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

Nobody worth a damn could ever come from such a place. It was nothing, like most places and people are nothing.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

The imprecatory psalms in particular have been historically understood as being the voice of Christ.

caused Gaia's regulation system to fail would lead to a hot and dead Earth

The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.

The God I worship is the personification of love, but not that maudlin love that oftimes blinds our eyes to facts and leads us to inconsistent actions

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

information about the action. Then, over the command

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father ' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

Auld Daddy Darkness... See him in the corners hidin' frae the licht, See him at the window gloomin' at the nicht...

American newspaper?" "The Tribune, general." Dornberger

I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings

When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion.

He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

On top of all that, here on his bed sat a funny-looking girl wearing a T shirt and a smile.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.