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Quote: the smitten word “but what are you FOR?”
Good read: Healthy leadership is accountable, humble, and willing to learn, and criticism is integral to public discourse. Pretending that criticism and social media are the domain of trolls is disingenuous, silencing, and frankly, ridiculous coming from the mouths of those who have built sizable platforms on both. Criticism is a discipline, and it does…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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