What It Means to Lose Trust
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Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept, as we have been enduring in the last few years, but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most certainly... Read more.
Send Them
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The sad impulse to sacrifice others to save ourselves appeared when people stepped up and spoke out during the Covid period. If someone said something that made... Read more.
Healing the Culture with Poetry and Song
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We now endure times of deconstruction that feel unprecedented, crises of confidence in almost all parts of our culture. With institutions crumbling, we may also... Read more.
Bureaucratic Doublespeak Gets People Killed
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Orwell argues that these language patterns destroy truth and beauty and clarity; they cloud thinking and collapse culture with their obfuscations. When reading or... Read more.
The Ruination of Children
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With the flip of a switch, the real world they knew ended. When they were confined to their rooms and houses, friends and music, color and life, humor and competition,... Read more.
What a Local Alternative Is Really Like
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Demand for local processors has swelled in the last three years because shutdowns and lockdowns scared people about food sources being jeopardized and supply chains... Read more.
The Work of Human Hands
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While people stayed in houses, sewage plants and wastewater treatment facilities continued to operate. People had to work at power plants to supply electricity to... Read more.
The Speakeasy Churches of 2020
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They were meeting; I did not have to wear a mask. They even had Bible study on Wednesday nights, where I could sit with others, all unmasked, and listen to talk... Read more.
The Urge to Shame, Purge, and Exclude Diminishes Ourselves
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In these times of summarily rejecting people we disagree with or treating those with differing opinions as dangerous or diseased, I have felt led to remember what... Read more.