Author: Tim
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Gabriel’s Inhalation
Yoga class this evening. This makes my Christian people nervous. No, I don’t believe that some crazed Hindu god owns the lotus pose, any more than I believe Darwin owns the bones of the brachiosaur. In the end, most Christians in the pew are actually among those who, had they lived in Corinth, would have…
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Political Debate is Inherently Corrupt
Political debate is conducted in mutual bad faith. It isn’t just the malicious intent, the goal of utterly destroying the reputation of the opponent. This is slander, and no honorable person can feel right about it. But beyond this obvious and surface malevolence, there is a deeper structural pattern in political speech that tags it…
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Advent, Vermont, 1982. I find a dead man.
After long hours of night driving it took a second for my eyes to jolt my brain about something wrong. A faint light to the left, down in the ravine, but it was gone behind my moving car as soon as I saw it. Stop the car. I braked gently on the wet blacktop, slick…
