postaday2011
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Forward living or backward obsessing?
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4 min read
My brain is intent on proving me wrong. More than a decade ago, when my two closest friends were living in East Lansing, I moved down to join them. Having only visited the apartment once or twice, and not knowing the area very well, I was confident that I knew the way to get there;…
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On Ecclesiology: Leadership, Emergence, and #Occupy
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4 min read
In the Premodern world, humanity was led by “the divine right of kings,” in other words, authority was bestowed upon a singular human authority from a divine source. In the Modern world, humanity was led by singular representation. Authority was bestowed on an individual to represent the people, either through fiat or election. The Enlightenment…
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A shocking lack of historical knowledge
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5 min read
We all know the paraphrase, if not the real quote by George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it.” And we seem to believe it. Sort of. Considering the ease with which we warn each other that such a leader as our own is the second coming of Hitler, it…
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Now posting daily, I swear!
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As readers of this blog can attest, I have begun writing more consistently and regularly. My plans were already underway for building myself up for daily posting and then this plopped into my lap: The Post A Day challenge from The Daily Post. So I thought: Huh. I was going to do that anyway… And…