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Thoughts on religion, politics, life and death. And other banned topics.

Author: Chip Burkitt

  • Ungrammatical Worship

    Bad grammar bothers me. I can’t help it; it just does. Whether it’s friends asking me to “borrow” them a book or a newspaper article that confounds lay and lie, bad grammar irks me. Still, I usually content myself with a muttered correction and go on. On Sundays when I worship, I like to be…

  • Getting Satire

    Satire is not hard to understand. The New Yorker cover depicting Barack Obama in full Muslim attire doing a fist bump with his wife, Michelle, in the Oval Office while an American flag burns in the fireplace—that is satire. The artist has brought together the most outrageous and calumnious rumors and lies from all the…

  • Achieving Dreams

    Yesterday as I was taking Nelly to a friends house for a sleepover party, she was singing a song from Disney’s Cinderella: No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that you wish will come true. “Do you belive that?” I asked. “Yes,” she said firmly. “But it’s not…