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When Jesus’s words sting
After the Transfiguration, Jesus has what appears to be an outburst of frustration. But is it? Maybe they are more revealing than that.
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Full Employment and Other Failures of Words
The first problem with the way we talk about our economy is that we use phrases that don’t mean what we think. The second is worse.
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The problem of Logic Creep
Why do so many arguments sound logical, but we know aren’t? The problem is that we are stuck in ever-expanding contours of truth.
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The next stage is here
What the pandemic surge at the start of COVID Year Three tells us we should be looking at; and why we aren’t.
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Why the lethality of Omicron is misunderstood
We are misusing our perspective. Looking at the individual behavior of a variant hides the impact on the wider public.
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We’ve run out of excuses for football
Football is killing people. And because it isn’t happening on the field, we can pretend like it isn’t happening at all.
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Promise Denied/Fulfilled
Advent is a season of noticing. And to mark it, I join in the global Advent calendar known as #AdventWord. On the first day, my Twitterfeed showed a fascinating juxtaposition. The word was #promise Between posts about promise, I saw a tweet decrying a New York Times article describing the incredibly normal conveniences American military…
