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Rethinking How We Talk About Weakness
I was talking with a friend on the phone the other day. She’s quite a hero in my book. She has set aside some personal ambitions and a vocational…
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Living Without An Admiring Audience
"American pop culture has teased us,” writes Terry Nguyễn, “with this carefree notion of youth — that you should be binge-drinking every other weekend…
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A Lent Within A Lent
William Willimon opens his book, Peculiar Speech with a reflection on freedom and thirst: In Egypt we thought our problem was our need for liberation…
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You Can Put a Man on the Moon but...
I am a few episodes into the podcast Obama and Springsteen have put together, “Renegades.” Much of what they talk about so far is reckoning with the…
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Indifference to Love Turns Us Into Fools
Love covers a multitude of sins, but the lack of love makes room for all kinds of iniquity.
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Going From Expressive Individualism to Performative Individualism
The sociologist Robert Bellah in his important work, Habits of the Heart, describes our modern world as being marked by Expressive Individualism: a…
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Spiritual Bundling
From Peloton to QAnon
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