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About this kid
Greg Volk is a freelance writer whose TV credits include Cash Cab and Pawn Stars. He desperately clings to his own youth while living and writing in Brooklyn. Likes include history and things that are awesome. Dislikes include chores and being told what to do. Follow his 140-character rebellion @kidsthosedays. MORE→
Category Archives: Rome
Augustine of Hippo: patron saint of youth-related complaints
Once upon a time there was a dude named Aurelius Augustine. He was born into an upper-middle class family in North Africa (present-day Algeria). His dad was a pagan and his mother a devout Christian. Li’l Aurelius was raised to … Continue reading
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Tagged Carthage, Confessions, Manichæans, Rome, St. Augustine of Hippo
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Don’t mess with Teenage Jesus
We know almost nothing about the teenage years of the most famous man in the Western World. Or do we? (No, we don’t, if we can say reliably that we know anything about him at all). Yet where there is … Continue reading
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Tagged Good Friday, infancy gospel of Thomas, Jesus Christ, teenage years
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KTD had no respect for public property
As it turns out, millennia before “Ricky N Christy 4ever” first appeared on an overpass near you, Pompeii had a vibrant graffiti culture. The surest sign that it was youth-incubated plague? Continue reading