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What Grace in parenting teens might look like
Ran across this excellent piece about the storms of parenting adolescents. I had to hold back tears when I read this, because it dredged up deep memories of watching friends and parents I know do this for their teens. Grace always hits me in the feels like that. I usually got to see both sides…
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Great read: Whether or Not It’s Possible to Debate Fundamentalists, Fundamentalists Want to Debate You
One of the best analyses of fundamentalist thinking I’ve ever read It is impossible to debate a fundamentalist….because their very language psychologically traps them into their frames of mind. In saying it is impossible to debate fundamentalists, Race is saying that fundamentalists — to borrow a concept from Robert Jay Lifton‘s idea of totalism —…
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If education grad classes were like seminary classes
A parody…. in love…. but with a point…. ~~~~~~ “All right, class. Let’s get started. I’ll open in prayer: Lord and Great God of All Wisdom, we enter Your presence today bringing with us our empty hands, begging for Your Grace and Spirit to fill us. Without your help, O Lord, we cannot comprehend these words…
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What my bosses have taught me
Reviewing my working life, I realize that I’ve worked for some pretty awesome people. Competent, professional, relational — I can genuinely say that each of the bosses in my life taught me (or allowed me to learn) pivotal lessons that make me a better person (not just a better employee). It’s been a useful exercise to take…
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The Petard Pinch on Vimeo
A beautifully told story of WW2 heroism.
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