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Please Don’t Make Me Bury You (opens the original)
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I recently asked someone I love not to make me bury him. I told him I wanted him to be there with me, that I did not want to reach the end of my life after losing the people I love and find that he was gone too. He just grunted at me in acknowledgment that he heard me. That was all. I had told him something that hurts more than I know how to explain, and I still do not know whether he is willing to try to be there. I love him dearly, and it pains me to watch him destroying his life while living
The Dealers Wear Suits Now: How Medicine, Government, and the Market Learned to Profit From Addiction (opens the original)
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This is just medicine. This is just entertainment. This is just a recreational activity. I kept hearing some version of those sentences through all three parts of this series, and I think the simplification is the trick because once the thing has been put inside one harmless box the moral and spiritual questions are treated like they came from a fanatic who cannot let anybody enjoy anything. But what if literally everything created or consumed has a moral and spiritual element? What if repeated
Are We Actually a Christian Nation (opens the original)
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The False Gods in Our Living Rooms: The Stories We Stopped Living (opens the original)
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The culture that pushes media tells us the mundane is, well, mundane, and that is why we need to escape to find excitement and beauty. This is a lie, an argument from people who are so removed from God that they do not realize how removed they are, and listening to them and giving weight to their words is dangerous. I believed them. I cared more for the fake reality than I cared for the Creation that was gifted to us, and by the time I began admitting what that had done in my adult life I was al
The Brothel in Every Bedroom: How the Creator Economy Monetized Loneliness and Lust (opens the original)
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I keep coming back to the word empowerment because it is doing far too much work. A woman can open an account, set a price, and be told that because nobody dragged her to a street corner she is now an entrepreneur and her nudity is a business. A man types in a card number, unlocks her body, sends a tip, and calls what he bought companionship or entertainment. Some of them know they are buying prostitutes. Whatever story the man tells himself, he is a purchaser. Whatever story the woman has been
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