Tag Archives: blogging

Portland Community Examiner

Posted on January 20, 2013 by nathanalbright

Late last week I was accepted as a writer for Examiner.com as a Portland Community Examiner on the strength of a blog entry I had written about Happy Valley when I first arrived here in Oregon [1]. As is my … Continue reading →

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Profitless Prophets

Posted on January 9, 2013 by nathanalbright

In the Roman Republic, successful generals at triumphs would have a slave standing next to them in their chariot whispering in their ear, “You are not a god; you are only a man.” The goal of this tradition, of course, … Continue reading →

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Mmmm….Toasty

Posted on January 7, 2013 by nathanalbright

My life is full of unintentional ironies and I have just learned to make the best of it and recognize the humor in the absurdity without troubling myself too much over it. When I posted last, my blog post on … Continue reading →

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Will Blog For Books

Posted on January 3, 2013 by nathanalbright

Being someone whose life has been filled with rather insecure economic conditions and who has been sensitive to the poverty around me, I can remember many times from my youth when I saw shabbily dressed people with cardboard signs saying … Continue reading →

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Edge Induced Cohesion: 2012 in review

Posted on December 30, 2012 by nathanalbright

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 70,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading →

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And His Kingdom Shall Contain None That Will Offend

Posted on October 4, 2012 by nathanalbright

This morning I had the slightly uncomfortable experience of being rebuked by someone I did not know (she happens to be a close friend of a recent acquaintance of mine from Portland) who happened to know my writing well and … Continue reading →

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Bloggers Gonna Blog

Posted on September 23, 2012 by nathanalbright

It is not a coincidence that the mascot of this blog is a Sonic The Hedgehog picture with the caption “Haters Gonna Hate.” In order for someone to be a prolific blogger, to devote hours a day to writing about … Continue reading →

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A Note On Cat Herding

Posted on August 26, 2012 by nathanalbright

One of my favorite commercials of all time is an EDS commercial from years ago (it may even be more than a decade old by this point) that featured a group of “cowboys in the Wild West herding cats. All … Continue reading →

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If You Want It, Here It Is, Come And Get It

Posted on August 2, 2012 by nathanalbright

Today in my lecture on the Gospels to my third year students I had the opportunity to talk about some of the passages of the Bible that I ponder on particularly often and particularly seriously. When I ponder scriptures, I … Continue reading →

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The Blogger At Bay

Posted on July 27, 2012 by nathanalbright

Sometimes it is a bit unnerving to think of just how slender our links to the outside world are. Admittedly, not being able to have internet for a day is a first world problem, as other people have far more … Continue reading →

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