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jasonite75So I’ve recently finished reading James W. Loewen’s book “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.” This book is about the version of American history we are taught in high schools and the subsequent de-programming professors have to do when they get freshman history students in college. It’s written by … Read more
I’ll be taking much of the context of this post from a friend, Bruce Heath. It’s originally from a presentation he gave that I’ve adapted and edited into an article which discusses lightly some of our doctrine and mostly focuses on our practices and the results of our lifestyle as published in one major and … Read more
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” — John 5:39 Really this is all it should take, right? A commandment from the Lord Himself to read our scriptures and we should be doing it. I’d love it if life was that easy. … Read more
The idea for this article has been percolating in my head for a while now, and I’ve caught on to the fact that if it doesn’t go away after a while I’d better do something with it. I’m a sometime observer of popular culture and society, and it seems to me that one of the … Read more
I’ve been wanting to see Moneyball since it was in the theater. Of course I rarely see films in the theater anymore, as I’m not always prepared to sell off internal organs to pay to see one. So Moneyball tells the story of Billy Beane and how he and a rather unattractive overweight fellow changed … Read more