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I found myself in a conversation with students about the challenges of being a...
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I believe in freedom of speech and, therefore, the right to protest. Unless anarchy,...
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God-given Weirdness
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The Limits to Professional Boundaries
Over the years I’ve seen and read a number of articles about professional boundaries and...
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August 31, 2017
My God Only Punishes People I Don’t Like
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Plainly and without question, both the hatred and prejudice expressed last night in Charlottesville and...
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Note: The following guest article is by my friend, Ashley Mowers. I invited Ashley to...
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We have the good fortune of living in a world in which an ever-greater number...
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I’ve spent a bit of time following the story of Charlie Gard this summer. First...
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June 28, 2017
Let us be the Church
As the news spills out from every corner of the globe and as our...
June 13, 2017
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A new study by political scientists notes that clergy, on the whole, are more partisan...
June 06, 2017
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Pastors work in what students of organization call “loosely linked bureaucracies.” What experts mean by...
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May 26, 2017
Minya and Manchester: On Care-lessness and Obsession
From this morning’s Wall Street Journal: Unknown gunmen opened fire Friday on a bus carrying...
May 18, 2017
People are just no damn good*
The world is divided into two camps by the answer to this question: Is human...
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