By Joe LaGuardia In our professionalized American culture, we do not often hold hands. Holding hands is reserved for couples in love or, in a brief welcome of mutual greeting, in the shaking of hands of a colleague. Sometimes you don’t even get that — the “fist bump” is quickly becoming the in thing asContinue reading “Holding Hands”
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Abstinence as a Rite of Passage
By Joe LaGuardia There is something to be said about the importance of rites of passage in a person’s growth and development. A rite of passage is the act of crossing a threshold–traditionally going from adolescence to adulthood–by way of ritual, self-sacrifice, crisis, or sacrament. As such, most rites of passage require some senseContinue reading “Abstinence as a Rite of Passage”
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