Culture War
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Why did the NFL get political now?
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8 min read
In their public honoring of Charlie Kirk, the NFL is playing with a dangerously partisan vision of political theater with big implications.
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“The culture war” is the rhetoric of abuse
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1 min read
Episode 85 of the Make Saints podcast
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Common: the heart of “the culture war”
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4 min read
We understand that the so-called culture war is rooted in identity. But at the heart of both is the sense of defining what is common.
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Fighting Over Credibility
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5 min read
Instead of dealing with the systemic abuse scandalizing the Roman Catholic Church, some are trying to fuel the culture war machine. I’m not Roman Catholic, but I think we should all pay attention to this scandal. Not just the crimes and cover-ups, but the bigger story. Now, I have a rule I try to follow:…
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One is that you care about human decency and how we get along. You care about me and don’t want to see me spiral into the abyss of outrage. Nor do you want to see another person’s outrage leveled at me. That’s why you care about the public square. You want things to go well…
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A culture war? You and I have our political-church landscape wrong. And we’re making it worse. Here’s how we fix it: we speak the truth.