Category: Culture
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The mindset of college freshmen
Here is this year’s Beloit College Mindset list for 2008. For these students, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Freddy Krueger have always been dead. 1. Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team. 2. Since they were in diapers, karaoke machines have been annoying people at…
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Online Car Buying Stinks
Kristen and I are in need of a car. We haven’t completely decided on the model, but we are fairly certain our new car in San Diego will either be a compact car that gets good gas mileage or a hybrid. Since we’ve not bought a car in over 10 years I was expecting that…
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Born Dropped Out
I found these videos fascinating. There is a guy doing some research on children of hippies and how they’ve prospered or struggled. The researcher asked the participants to answer 20 questions on video in a self-produced kind of way. Quick disclaimer, I have watched a couple of them so I can’t guarantee that if you…
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Finding culture from within four walls
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the culture we live in as well as how we discover the culture we live in. Some of it comes from observation, some of it we naturally pick up without noticing it, but a lot of our culture comes from outside. Think about the cultural things you pick…
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New community and youth ministry
In the last few years “community” has taken on a whole different meaning. While community will always be a part of where you live and where you feel like you belong… I’ve noticed that students are finding community in unconventional places. School – Duh. This is a no brainer. Church – You get paid to…