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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”...
Aaron Mead
Jul 26, 20174 min read
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”...
Aaron Mead
Jul 16, 20174 min read
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...
Aaron Mead
Jul 2, 20174 min read
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...
Aaron Mead
Jun 30, 20173 min read
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...
Aaron Mead
Jun 18, 20173 min read
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...
Aaron Mead
Jun 11, 20172 min read
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...
Aaron Mead
Jun 4, 20172 min read
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