
Take That

Glory at the End of Mundane Road
A Song I Really Like for Some Reason
The Downside of Philosophy
HT: Samuel Cherubin
Renato Muccillo
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In Defense of the Billy Graham Rule
The rule is called by various names. Some call it the Billy Graham Rule, while others call it the Mike Pence Rule. I learned it from my father, who was scrupulous about this sort of thing. The idea was to stay out of one-on-one situations with any woman who was not your wife, mother, daughter, or sister. Or old enough to be your great grandmother.
A contrary position was taken up by Aimee By…
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The Allman Brothers’ Fillmore East was the pulsing, gritty soundtrack of my childhood, blaring through our house like a Southern rock revival meeting. It was right there with that gloriously tacky golden-veneer plaque of Jesus, clutching the Ten Commandments like a divine PowerPoint presentation, framed loud and proud on the wall. Those soul-piercing eyes of His? Oh, they stalked me, tracking every guilty step I took, like a holy security camera in my Catholic upbringing. Between Duane’s wailing slide guitar and Jesus’relentless gaze, I was caught in a crossfire of sin and salvation, sweating bullets in my own living room.