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Last week I happened to stumble into the movie Charlie Wilson’s War, the movie about how the USA covertly helped Afghanistan defeat the former USSR back in the 1980s. A key character in the movie is a woman who confesses a lot about her Christianity. At one point in the movie, she gets into a…
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“$1.50 for a piece of bread?!?!?!? You have got to be kidding!” No, the waitress assured me, while giving me the “angry eyes” of someone who can’t quite understand why the person in front of them (in this case, me) is so dense. This frustrating exchange took place back in 2009 while I…
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Depending on who you read and what source you choose to trust, Valentine’s Day is either in honor of a church leader choosing to support marriage in defiance of the Emperor, or it is connected to a fertility feast by the ancient Romans. Maybe its both, which wouldn’t be such a horrible thing necessarily, though…