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The game of not getting it
With following Jesus, the point is not to understand or to win, but to understand Jesus. To get what he is about and wants for us.
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The whole is greater than the sum
The challenge for postmodern society is hiding in plane sight. We have forgotten that we are better together—and that we even exists.
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Fleeing the Sinking Ship
We rarely use this metaphor correctly. Which tells us a lot about what ails us. We want to be the virtuous one throughout the story.
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Why being the Devil’s Advocate is a bankrupt profession
We love the idea. And the phrase is so common. Offer a different perspective. Doesn’t matter if its useful. Make sure we talk anyway.
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Professional or Common? Clothes and the making of man
Debates on what clothes make a professional seem reasonable and valuable. But they hide our confusion over our true values.
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Why is it so dangerous to be a kid in the United States?
The United States is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for children. So why are we so convinced that we can’t change that?
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The false scarcity of good soil
Jesus doesn’t give us a challenging teaching here. It’s straight-forward. But our brains do something weird with it.
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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.