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When we talk about things worth dying for; we’re really talking about things worth living for, the things that give life beauty and meaning. Thinking a little about our mortality … helps us see what matters, and also the foolishness of things that, finally, don’t matter.

Two great temptations that I’ve seen people struggle with over my lifetime. The first is to try to create life’s meaning for themselves, which translates in the end to no meaning at all. The second is to live and die for the wrong meaning, the wrong cause, the wrong purpose. The world is full of disguised and treasonous little gods. 

Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., Things
Worth Dying For
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    by Steve
    So we are coming up (again) on the Fourth of July, and because many Christians are confused about the propriety of celebrating “rebellion” (Romans 13!), and because our current power monkeys are behaving in a fashion far worse than King George III ever did, and especially because this means we are dealing with a subject that is far from academic, it is necessary to go over this material again.
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    by Steve
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    by Steve
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    by Steve
    Here’s your uplift for the week. It’ll warm the cockles of your heart. (Unless you’ve had bivalve molluscectomy, then you’ll just get a general warming feeling)
  • A Culture War Field Report
    by Steve
    If you don’t know Pastor Doug Wilson and his amazing family and equally amazing church family (Christ Church, Moscow Idaho) you will, more and more in the coming months of the news here at PoundSand. If you didn’t know this yet, I lifted the message of our yard signs from a great piece Doug wrote on his website Blog & Mablog.