The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown What’s the real Truth? As a friend of mine wrote when commenting on a previous Firestarter, belief in…
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The DaVinci Code (III of IV)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown So how’d we get here? Remember the class I initially mentioned? Well, coupled with it was another one…
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown I’ve always considered it a crying shame most versions of Christianity are unable to tolerate any challenge to…
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Originally posted May 2004 Thanks to Don, who was right when he told me I really should read…
Continue ReadingA Life Worth Living: Personal examination of religious & spiritual beliefs (I of V)
Paper written Fall 2008 for the Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program class Women, Religion, & Social Change; with professors D. Grenn & M. Rigoglioso. Bibliography (with…
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Paper originally written for a fascinating The Bible as History & Literature class, circa the late 1990’s. In the time of the Diaspora, the Jews…
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition In this book Benedict Anderson discusses the imagining and rise of nationalism. He…
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache The Apache feel that speech should be used with economy. Verbosity is not considered…
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache A sense of history is given by the Apache location stories. The stories relate…
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This is the first paper I handed in for my “Language and Culture” class. I found it an interesting window on what the professor expected.…
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