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Sunday Sermon – Under the Foot of Hercules

“..And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the merging of image and text defining a new form of communication should be killed…” Continue reading

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Exposed: Portrait of the Artist as a 7-Minute Reality TV Segment

The artist sells out. Or tries to. Continue reading

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I Have Tasted My Father’s Blood…And So My Tongue Begins to Burn

“His life sentence is to glioblastoma multiforme, terminal brain cancer, and yet he defies it over the last seven years with the Nietzschean willpower of a Babylonian god who refuses—won’t do it!—to recognize a world beyond the fertile crescent.” Continue reading

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The Fat Wallet of the Spirit

Dads, death and father’s day, Jose Padua meditates on his father and loss and the hopes that we keep despite all else. Continue reading

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