December 2011
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Back When I Knew Everything: Ethics & Media 3
This one revisits the infamous story of American juvenile delinquent gets caned. And yet another OJ SImpson trial shout out.
July 5, 1994 Reaction Paper #3
The entire country took notice when the teenager Michael Fay was sentenced to six swats with a bamboo cane for vandalizing automobiles in Singapore. The U.S. government stepped in, imploring the Singapore government to not cane the...
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Back When I Knew Everything: Ethics & Media 2
New Discovery: These first papers were a series of “reactions” to the events of the OJ Simpson trial for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson & Ronald Goldman, for the Ethics in Journalism class I was taking.
New Concern: Did I actually believe OJ was innocent? Certainly not…
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Reaction Paper #2
With all that seems to be going on surrounding the O.J. Simpson case,...
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Back When I Knew Everything: Ethics & Media
The many posts to follow are papers I wrote while I was in college and seminary. I’m posting them here primarily as a means of digital archiving. Please forgive any immature expression of thought. I was pretty impressed with myself back in the day. Many years later, recognizing that it’s taking me 20 minutes to cut & paste these old documents…well, let’s just say...
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Last Christmas
What a difference a year makes.
Last Christmas, we were eight months into unemployment, living on my retirement savings. We were on a restricted budget to stretch our resources as long as possible. In many ways, it could have been a season marked by how poor we suddenly found ourselves, full of disappointment with the awareness of what we didn’t have.
It turned out to be one of the most...
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Making love, Part 5: love is God's ultimate weapon
Link to the previous parts in the series
The previous entries discuss the shortcomings of trying to rush love, and offer a discussion of how real, selfless love takes times. 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 shows how God reveals himself through true expressions of love.
Love never Fails (v. 8)
What a succinct and perfect message. Love never ends. Scripture declares that God is love, and here it tells us that...