Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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Hawks and Doves
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3 min read
The keen hawk is too flattering an image for those who perpetually push for war. We need something far more short-sighted.
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Dangerous Expectations
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4 min read
When we tell stories, we take shortcuts. We generalize, connect, and get the audience to fill in the gaps. However, this can distort the truth.
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Brave in Love
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10 min read
Jesus keeps offering a vision of radical love. But for some reason we keep shaking our heads and going “No, really. What do you want?”
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Our problem is we fear courage. We want it to work for us. Never hurt us. And only ever conform to our desires and hopes for the world.
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You’ve heard people refer to appealing to “the marketplace of ideas.” It’s a pretty clumsy way to refer to a negotiation.
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The Amazon is on fire
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2 min read
A rainforest which took 55 million years to create is on fire. And those who set the fires are just trying to avoid the blame. The Amazon is on fire. That’s the story. A rainforest which took 55 million years to create is on fire. A rainforest which absorbs a huge portion of the world’s…