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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This sturdy ceramic kitchen compost holder has become an old friend, one of those dependable if inert gizmos that’s there waiting by the coffeemaker every morning, prepared to do its job without complaint. If I find myself experiencing the odd sensation of affection for a piece of mass-produced pottery, I find some justification in the countless late-night trips on which it’s accompanied me, summer and winter, dutifully bearing its load of fruit and veggie waste out into the backyard darkness to the compost unit.
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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

The actual events that led to the siege of the Alamo and the establishment of the short-lived country called Texas lie shrouded in the fog of contested legends. Like the Middle East today, two peoples necessarily tell the story of the same land in far different ways. It is often said by Texans today that Mexico is achieving through immigration and fecundity what Santa Ana could not.
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unforgiven: Romans 2

Grace is at once the most threatening and satisfying of human experiences.

In biblical terms, divine grace makes it impossible for us to earn our way into God’s favor. It is so lavish, so inscrutable, so powerfully invasive of lives that it pulls out from under us the tightly-woven carpet of credits and demerits upon which we have learned to gain traction, to stand tall. It deconstructs and reconstructs identity as potently as any other force. So, it threatens the construct in which we have learned to survive and, occasionally, to thrive.
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