Technology as servant can and does bless the world in numerous ways. Technology as master is another story. Consider: ▪ reams of paper that computer printers spew into scrap bins in endless pursuit of the perfect document;▪ WALL•E1 landscapes of electronic scrap trashed in pursuit of the latest, greatest;▪ electronic-sitters that are too overwhelmingly convenient […]
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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (New Testament Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13, “No servant …”) These words were spoken nigh 2,000 years ago, and perhaps never
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(or When are we going to open our eyes and ears that we might SEE and HEAR?!!)“Almost thou persuadest me [NOT] to be a Christian!”1 That was my first reaction upon reading an email forward sent by a good Christian lady. So here is my latest “whoa, woe, whoa!!!” This church sister introduced her “forward”
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(This is not a déjà vu aimed solely at the incumbent Democrats, though in my view there is cause for alarm, but these warning voices also indict their prower-driven opponents whose presumptions, tactics, priorities, and propaganda present, in my view, an even greater danger.) Warning voices about ways, means, and follies are seldom welcomed by
“Talk about déjà vu!!!!!” my friend Sondra headlined in her email reporting her belated research on the state of healthcare debates.* She continued: “It was the tobacco boys all over again. Painful! Painful! Our best ’n brightest industry spokesmen—lined up like errant school chums—all prepped by their corporate-ness to the identical party-line. The new chant?—Recission.
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In the culture of affluence to which we have become accustomed, we hear great indignation expressed against the idle poor and the bleeding-hearts who would take hard-earned, deserved wealth from the industrious rich and redistribute it to those who, with even a modicum of effort, could achieve the American dream if they would just get
Recently, a Thanksgiving-dinner conversation turned to the multiple sins of multinational corporations. Our well-to-do host sprang forcefully to the defense of corporations, discounting their sins, because they create jobs—MILLIONS of jobs, filled by lucky employees! The discussion aborted and we turned to more banal matters. But the image of “Lucky,” from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for
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