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  • The Book of Evangelical (Link)

    The Book of Evangelical | David M Schell. Oh, you haven’t heard of the Book of Evangelical?  Well, now you have. Go read it. Lots of gems you’ve forgotten that you remember God saying…. Except He didn’t.

  • Getting Millennials to care about the democratic process

    This entire piece is a great read, an examination of the growing divide between traditional media outlets (and their rapidly greying audience) and “New Media” like YouTube and Tumblr, which have the attention of Millennials. Problem is, the erosion of our primary news outlets into crazy shouting idiots has also eroded people’s faith in the democratic…

  • Questioning the purpose of higher education. What if both sides are wrong?

    Questioning the purpose of higher education. What if both sides are wrong?

    First an excerpt, and a suggestion that you go off to read this entire article and then come back to my post (which continues after the excerpt): “If a university is not a place where intellectual curiosity is to be encouraged, and subsidized,” the editors wrote, “then it is nothing.” The Times was giving voice…

  • Modesty: I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means – Q Ideas

    An outstanding post on Modesty – I couldn’t have said it better myself. Brava, Rachel Held Evans. What I’ve only just begun to realize is that these two extremes represent different sides of the same coin. While popular culture tends to disempower women by telling them they must dress to get men to look at…

  • Link: My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward – Pacific Standard

    “Giulia and I fell in love effortlessly, in our carefree teens. We’ve now loved each other desperately, through psychosis. At our wedding we promised this to each other: to love each other and stick together in good times and in bad. In hindsight, we also should have promised to love each other when life is…

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