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Aaron Mead

Sep 14, 2017
3 min

Death and Glory on the Mountaintop

If I’m perfectly honest, I want glory. I want my gifts to be reflected far and wide. I want my accomplishments to be honored by many...

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Aaron Mead

Sep 1, 2017
1 min

In Defense of Useless Knowledge

My latest piece, “In Defense of Useless Knowledge,” is posted on Medium.com. Choice quote: “If we insist on measuring the value of...

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Aaron Mead

Aug 20, 2017
3 min

“Have to” or “Want to”?

At the beginning of last school year my daughter made a friend who has had an especially hard childhood. As the year wore on, she learned...

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Aaron Mead

Aug 13, 2017
1 min

Running the Country Like a Business

I just posted an article at Medium.com, “Running the Country Like a Business.” Choice quote: “CEOs are kings. The U.S. President is not a...

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Aaron Mead

Aug 6, 2017
3 min

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

As part of the research for my fiction project telling the backstory of Philemon in the New Testament, I recently read I, Claudius by...

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Aaron Mead

Jul 26, 2017
4 min

Is Amazon “Making History”?

Last week I visited the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles for the first time. One of my favorite pieces was Andreas Gursky’s, “Amazon”...

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Aaron Mead

Jul 16, 2017
4 min

Obedience, Submission, and “Slave Morality”

According to Orlando Patterson, the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus wrote, “The height of misery is to live at another’s will”...

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Aaron Mead

Jul 9, 2017
4 min

Aquinas on Christian Joy

I have often felt a tension in my theology when it comes to the concept of joy. On the one hand, in Galatians (5:22) Paul counts joy...

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Aaron Mead

Jul 2, 2017
4 min

Was Roman Slavery Kinder and Gentler than American Slavery?

I’m writing a historical novel that tells the backstory of Paul’s little New Testament letter to Philemon. The letter is written to a...

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Aaron Mead

Jun 30, 2017
3 min

Loving the Enemy that is Yourself

Last week I listened to a Pray as You Go podcast focused on Matthew 5:43-45: 43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your...

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Aaron Mead

Jun 18, 2017
3 min

The Ministry of Death

I listen regularly to the Pray as You Go podcast. Last week, one of the passages featured was the passage below from Paul’s second letter...

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Aaron Mead

Jun 11, 2017
2 min

Creativity and Constraints

As I launch into fiction writing, I’ve been reading Robert McKee’s Story as a guide to the principles of good narrative. I just came...

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Aaron Mead

Jun 4, 2017
2 min

Ahab’s Failure to Forgive

I’ve been reading Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick and came across the following passage describing how Ahab’s mania for the great white...

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