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Nobody actually tries to fight fire with fire
It’s a dumb saying. It wasn’t always so. But if we better understood what it is trying to tell us, we’d all benefit.
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Hypocrisy isn’t the problem
Dealing with politics, we often think it is all about consistent ideology. But it is always about both ideology and behavior.
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Already Divided
We really don’t like the idea of Jesus bringing division. But we like what he actually means by it even less.
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Debt — the enemy of faith
Debt it is often treated as the neutral arbiter of balance. But it is the way we justify inequality, enslavement, and separation.
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Good governance
What we mean by the phrase “good governance” is revealing. Even more revealing is what we do to prioritize it.
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We aren’t politicized
Stop saying we’re too politicized. The word, and what we’re trying to say with it, is now pretty meaningless.
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The day after a mass shooting
We will investigate and speculate and argue and honor and then forget and move on and pretend this is all normal and unavoidable.