Aaron Marcelli | January 30, 2012
Have you ever attended a church service, business meeting or political rally and found yourself riled up in anger as you left? Have you watched a news program or read a magazine article and found yourself upset afterward? If so, you may have fallen victim to what I see as an increasing trend of leadership [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | December 31, 2011
As 2011 comes to a close I wanted to recap what have been my most popular posts of the year. Based on blog comments, emails, tweets, and personal feedback I rate the following as my top three posts of the year (listed in reverse order). 3. Fox News, Jon Stewart, And The Poor – I [...]
Category: Caring for the poor, Marriage/Family, Politics, Stewardship/Giving, Writing |
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Aaron Marcelli | August 30, 2011
Last week I introduced a video clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which he shows Fox News reporters and guests blaming America’s poor for our economic problems. I got comments, emails, and tweets about the post, most of which were surprisingly approving of the clip and my comments about it. However, I [...]
Category: Caring for the poor, Jesus, My Life / Personal, Politics, Stewardship/Giving |
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Aaron Marcelli | August 26, 2011
I try to avoid getting political on this blog as posting about politics has caused conflict in the past. However, the following is something I feel deeply burdened to address. Since watching the August 18th episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart I have been unable to get the following video clip out of [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | April 20, 2011
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck combined have been married six times. I have a recurring dream that my alarm does not go off and I am late for work. this is a big fear of mine so I am loosing a lot of sleep. If they made a movie about this year’s super bowl Ben [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | February 4, 2011
The last of the six personal values I have set up for myself is generosity. I want to be marked as someone who not only is burdened and cares, but does something about it. In order to show that we can be trusted (with money, time, responsibility, etc.) we must show ourselves as good stewards. [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | October 27, 2010
I have had some people (and by some I mean exactly two) ask me if I plan to write another book and if so what it will be about. I’m going to take the media’s approach and say that every one inquiry represents a million more, so since two million people want to know about [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | October 6, 2010
“Well you’re just racist” Ever since the November, 2008 election this phrase has become cliché in political arguments. And unfortunately, most of the times I have heard it used, the arguers seems to have a very limited understanding of racism. Calling someone a racist is an easy out. You automatically win when you say this [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | December 17, 2009
A few days ago I watched Barbara Walter’s end of the year special where she lists the year’s ten most fascinating people. I was honestly pretty board with the list as it included no actors, few entertainers, and only one sports athlete. I really did not care that much to hear interviews with Jenny Sanford, [...]
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Aaron Marcelli | September 17, 2009
There’s an old adage that says don’t assume because when you assume you make an…and then it calls us names that people would get mad at me for using on this website. Yet, I tend to be an assumer. I don’t always say a lot, assuming those around me already know what I would say [...]
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