communication
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Between: Luke 14:15-24
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8 min read
The conclusion of Jesus’s attending a dinner party in Luke explores God’s vision for humanity: an expanded guest list and a spirit of gratitude.
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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 problem with the way we talk about poverty
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7 min read
Our skeptical approach to talking about poverty is gross. It’s also intellectually lazy and fundamentally based on opinion, not reality.
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Our problem isn’t that we can’t tell when someone’s lying. It’s that we refuse to punish those who lie or protect those who tell the truth. Truth is a weighty topic. And yet it all feels so subjective. The elephant parable comes to mind. The one in which many people touch the different parts of…
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Who can listen to it?
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9 min read
At the end of the Bread of Life discourse in John 6, his disciples abandon him. Not because the road is hard, but because Jesus told them the truth. We want to be more effective. Jesus would rather be honest. Proper 16B | John 6:56-69 You’ve heard of reverse psychology. It’s a simple idea that…
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Change: For the Sake of Change
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4 min read
The phrase is all too common: change for the sake of change. But we don’t actually mean it. We’re trying to say something else without having to say it. People like to say that we shouldn’t change for the sake of change. But it isn’t really true. We often change for the sake of change.…