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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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I buy about 10 McDonalds Arch cards (gift certificates) a week and I pass them out to whoever may need one.Even if they want a hit on their crack pipe, they’ll eventually need food, so I’ll try to give them what they need to survive. Handing them $20 won’t work anymore nowadays. So I hand them Mickey Dees gift cards.
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/services/arch_card.html