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I, Pandora is a blog dedicated to the exploration of the human condition from the perspective of a Christian American Thinker.
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I Know Who I’d Like To Be
Wealth without context Rich and not working During a conversation the question came up “who am I?” The lady I was talking with gave the above response, half joking yet completely serious. I’ve often thought what I’d do if I we...
Book Covers
Paul Potts - just another human He looked like he may not be running on all cylinders. His appearance said he may be a few fries short of a happy meal. Harmless, but hardly someone worthwhile, much less, important. How sad that I could dismiss a huma...
Good Father
Fatherhood is manly I’ve been surprised of late at the sources and volume of negative or, at best, ambivalent feelings towards fathers and fatherhood. My wife is getting involved in the ladies ministry at our church and there was a coffee and t...
Health Care Update
They [members of congress] had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context...
To Kill A Butterfly
Want to know how to kill a butterfly? Help it. Yes, it’s that easy. You see this newly metamorphosized creature, brimming with potential beauty and wondrous mystery, struggling weakly against the tough confines of it’s chrysalis shell. Mo...
The Only Right
The only right which each and every human being has is the right to struggle. To try is the only thing we can claim as ours. To have or possess? That is only ours if we succeed in our struggle, and it may be taken away without notice or consent or fa...
What is our problem?
What makes us so special? Rather than embarking on a long dialogue, as is my norm, I want to instead throw some things out on the table for you to think about. First . . . do we really readthe Bible, or do we just preview it through our Americanized ...
Sitting & Slapping
(Hitchens and Dawkins) have to borrow from a theistic worldview in order to argue against it. They have to sit in God’s lap to slap his face. Frank Turek: Sleeping with your girlfriend...
Dilbert . . . in this new economy
Here is a priceless article out of the WSJ. There are no real “slick” lines in the article or fancy catchphrases, just sound, well though out reasoning. The article details how the economies woes are no longer the fault of the Bush admini...
Why Does It Matter?
Why do I pick on people like the Miss Havisham family? Or excoriate the misinformed lifeform on Medved? Indict the frantic yuppies fearful of every nuts shadow? Or judge the juvenile respondents of the Network World poll? Because every action we take...
Obama: The Man And The Idea
(A)s we revel in this gush of happy feelings it is important to recognize that not all change is good. It is important to recognize that we need to pin our hopes on solid ideas or our hopes will be quite hopeless. On that depressing note I beg your p...
An Informed Life
On a recent Michael Medved show a caller, identifying himself as a moderately liberal high school political science teacher, stated that the conservative force he fears most in America is from the Christian conservatives who allow their theology to i...
Life Well Lived
When I die, I don’t want the words “he was a good man” said at my funeral. Not that nor any derivation thereof. In some of the deeper quandaries I’ve been dealing with lately, a seems to recur: “I don’t want to reg...
My Path, My Fear
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/18/my-path-my-fear/.One of my greatest fears is leadership. I’ve felt the call to lead in various roles many times in my short life, but I tend to shri...
StoryOfStuff - Part 7
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-7/.Continued from part 6 Salvation: God set up a system of free will. It is not the nicer, or cleaner, or prettier system. But it is the...
StoryOfStuff - Part 6
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-6/.Continued from part 5 10 Little and Big Things You Can Do: 1: Hypocrisy: Publicly-”Green” people tend to fly more, take m...
StoryOfStuff - Part 5
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-5/.Continued from part 4 CONSUMPTION: “Golden arrow” “heart of the system, the engine that drives it. “Protectin...
StoryOfStuff - Part 4
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-4/.Continued from part 3 DISTRIBUTION: “Selling all the toxic, contaminated junk as fast as possible” “Keep the prices...
StoryOfStuff - Part 3
Copyright © 2008 matthew. Visit the original article at http://www.ipandora.net/2008/11/04/storyofstuff-part-3/.Continued from part 2 PRODUCTION: “Use energy to mix toxic chemicals in with natural resources to make toxic contaminated produ...
