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Pessimism and Powerlessness
What is the most dangerous threat in your life? In society at large? Is it economic stress? Job insecurity? Relational conflict? Health-care challenges? Amorality? Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy...
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Must Read: Diane Langberg on “Trauma as a Mission Field”
My supervisor, mentor, and colleague, Dr. Diane Langberg has been telling us for some time that “trauma is the mission field of our time.” Recently, however, a few Christian NGO/Missions leaders have...
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Does your voice create or destroy culture?
Am reading a very helpful book by Chris McGoff entitled, The Primes: How any Group can Solve any Problem (2011, Victory Publishers). While this is a business book, it really is a book about envisioning...
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Great literature on the effect of unconfessed guilt and refused forgiveness
Image via Wikipedia Listening to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. You can read for free here (if you have a Kindle you can download). Hawthorne does a fantastic job illustrating the anguish...
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King to psychologists: Some maladjustment is necessary!
Image via Wikipedia Recently, someone forwarded to me an email from Ken Pope (see his fabulous and informative website: www.kenpope.com) containing excerpts of Martin Luther King’s address to...
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Why we lie
Just finishing up Karl Marlantes’ What it is Like to go to War (New York, Atlantic Monthly Press). It is not an easy book even as it is a quick read. There are many psychological frailties brought to...
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Kristof on talent vs. opportunity
Have you caught the recent PBS showing of Half the Sky, a documentary based on the same-titled book about the oppression of women around the globe? Worthy of your time. The previous link will also...
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Book Note: A brief window into Palestinian life
English: Personal photo of Poet and Author Mourid Barghouti, taken by Dia Saleh (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Just finished Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (2011, Walker & Co.;...
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The cure for mental weariness?
Check out this thought by George Matheson, a blind 19th c. Scottish Presbyterian minister: What a strange cure for mental weariness…I should have expected an invitation to mental rest….The weariness of...
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David Brooks on Suffering
Over at the BTS faculty blog, I’ve written a short post pointing to David Brook’s recent Op Ed pieces on suffering. He has been writing quite a bit on the topic lately. I think you will find his...
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