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Our faith is much more messy, more gray, than we like to put on. What if the mess is holy?…What if the mess is not something to ‘fix’. (A.J. Swoboda, Messy: God Likes It That Way, Kregel Publications, 2012, p. 8) Frankly, I sometimes worry that people sell Christianity because they’ve conjured it up in their mind as
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“¡Muera la inteligencia! ¡Viva la Muerte!” (José Millán Astray) Oare cum ar fi cultura noastră (cea britanică în mod deosebit) văzută de un doctor psihatru, adică de unul care tratează tocmai pe cei care iau prea în serios consumul culturii de azi? Cum ar fi privită, cu alte cuvinte, bucuria dezlănțuită iar apoi culeasă din propriile
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“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision,
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Many of the folks who were waiting for the arrival of their Messiah wanted a warrior. They got something different. Different, but better. Different, but divine. Different, but necessary. God wouldn’t have had it any other way. In the same vein, we don’t want a hidden or silent God. We want Santa Claus. We want
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We shape our tools, and there after they shape us. (John M. Culkin) I’ve read The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) and I remembered Plato. In Phaedrus’s dialogue (sect. 274-275), Plato presents a story about the invention of letters by Thoth. This new skill is a
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