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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Song of Solomon 2
The bride and groom tell the whole world of their devotion to each other. The treasure here is the collection of images in the unique Hebrew context. The woman opens with a measure of self-denigration. She’s nothing but a common … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged ancient hebrew culture, human sexuality, marriage, scripture, social stability
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Virtual Spiritual Family
Welcome to our virtual parish. I’m a virtual pastor. Technically I’m an elder, the management half of the church leadership team. However, I also serve in the priesthood role simply because no one else is doing it and I have … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged church, church leadership, marriage, ministry, mission, mysticism, scripture, spiritual family, virtual parish
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Frantic Spamming (Updated)
Update: A manager at Love’s called shortly after I posted this and was unhappy to hear that I had so much trouble getting this SMS spam to stop. I take his apology at face value. I told him it took … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged advertising, business, communications, economics, marketing, propaganda, psychology, resistance, social conditioning
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Tear the Veil over the Past
Remember: It’s all narrative. It’s not a question that you cannot possibly get something approaching objective facts, but that you won’t get much of it from the voices so willing to tell their story. People are generally incapable of being … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged government, mysticism, oppression, propaganda
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Song of Solomon 1
The primary characters are a king and his bride. She is of noble birth, but presented here as a country girl, familiar with the urban scene, but previously not at home in it. A recurring role is the choir of … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged ancient hebrew culture, ancient near east, city girls, game, hebrew literature, love, marriage
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Let’s Study Romance
Our Western culture militates against moral wisdom. Paul and his associates confronted a somewhat less foreign culture in the first churches outside Palestine than we do today. When you read between the lines of the New Testament, you still see … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged biblical morality, marriage, psychology, quantum reasoning, scripture, Western mythology
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Ego and Idolatry
In Scripture there is a consistent warning about a particular class of female idols, commonly referred to by variations of Asherah, Ashtarte or Ishtar, and these are related to the European Oester. Reading between the lines, we see that this … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient near east, Asherah, Ashtarte, history, marriage, moral imperatives, religion
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Not a Spiritual Influence
As always, it’s more complex than we want to recognize. It’s easier to pin it all on this or that one thing and make it our crusade to end that thing. And I could easily take you down a false … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged culture, oppression, propaganda, psychology, resistance, spiritual birth, spirituality, technology, video
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