Honesty
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The challenge for most of us isn’t that we lack the ability to do the right thing. It’s that we’re incentivized to not do it.
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In civil debate, we worry about not taking the other person seriously enough. But sometimes they use that generosity against us.
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A poem about the experience of witnessing lies, how we receive them, and how we forget our role in allowing them to stick.
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Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a story rich with possibility, value-judgment, and expectations. Reading it that way helps.
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Being honest and sharing our feelings isn’t easy. But we’re deceiving ourselves if we think we can avoid the truth.
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We avoid the truth to protect each other. What we’re actually protecting is dishonesty and the enemies of love.