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Dressing in Drag
There have been only a few times in my life when I dressed as a girl or woman. It hasn’t been a habit with me, nor did I feel like I was challenging gender norms or doing anything especially transgressive. The first time, as far as I can recall, was when I was 14 or…
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Why Stories Circulate about Covid-19 Deaths
I’ve seen several posts on Facebook claiming that deaths of relatives or friends have been falsely attributed to covid-19 when in fact they were due to some other cause. These anecdotes represent a misunderstanding of the way statistics work and how data for statistics is collected. Of course, researchers want as accurate a count as…
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Opportunity to Display God’s Work
In chapter 9 of his gospel, John launches into the story of how Jesus healed a man blind from birth and the aftermath of that healing. Here is how the story begins: As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,…
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