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Demon Copperhead
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A condign word of reproach to the homely proud
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A culture gap on a basic human instinct
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Native Son
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Before the 2024 election
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Disingenuous arguments against the death penalty
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In the future AI will do the jobs that humans do poorly now
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The Jungle
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The solvent of moral judgment
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Could we not make screen time a class issue?
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Relictus
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Ten lessons from a degree in biblical studies
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Deplatforming and the public square
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Holy, holy, holy
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Discourse/epistemic markers are not uses of exclusive language
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (a brief review)
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Thinking makes it so (pt. 3)
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Thinking makes it so (revisited)
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My Religion (Tolstoy)
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The Light Ages by Seb Falk
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Enneagram
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Incommensurate quantities (again)
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Manufactured tempests in teapots
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The Matrix Resurrections
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Thinking makes it so
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NLT: Good translation, bad advertising
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I’m proud to be embarrassed other Christians
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The Platonic Ideal of Pilau
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Books I read in 1393
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Point/Counterpoint: COVID-19 & Sex Education
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Let’s just be clear: we’re the ones who get decide whether you cover your face or not
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What is the fundamental question of epistemology?
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Atlas Shrugged
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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Christ announces end of ‘toxic’ relationship with Nebraska man
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Real life Gettier-type exception
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Is Jesus Really God?
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Is Christianity Too Narrow?
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Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?
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Is There a God?
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Does Life Have a Purpose?
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Leaving social media
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Hammarskjöld: A Life
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Thinking and Expertise
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More on echo chambers: skepticism as an antidote to cynicism?
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Books I read in 1392
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Books I read in 1391
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Charlottesville
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Decriminalize drugs at the federal level and let the States experiment
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The New Jim Crow
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War and Peace
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Books I read in 1390
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You know what would make this line move faster? If I stood a little closer to you
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In which the computer guesses my personality from my blog posts
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Fake News & Unavoidable Narratives
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Make economic immigration radically easier, and build a wall
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The best fail video of 2016—perhaps of all time
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Books I read in 1389
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Books I read in 1388
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A People’s History of the United States
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Contemporary Christian Music Industry Attains Incarnational Presence in Nation’s Elevators After Decades-Long Effort
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The Moral Vision of the New Testament
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A bit of sanity in an insane election cycle
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The Idea of a University
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Psalms
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Cultivation, Pt. 2: The narrative
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Cultivation
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Reflections on The Fellowship
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Speculation Grows About Unspoken Prayer Request
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Controversy as the meaning of shalom expands to the breaking point
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Reductio ad vim: a fallacy for our time
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The moral implications of individualism and collectivism
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Losing Faith
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Politics and postmodern decision making
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Loving Trump Supporters
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Ten Questions
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Lila, by Marilynne Robinson
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The Insecurity of Totalitarianism
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Further Markings
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Do Christians and Zoroastrians worship the same God?
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Loving the Islamic State
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When Helping Hurts
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Refugee/Migrant
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Paul of Tarsus, advocate of gender neutrality
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Markings
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Advice for my kids (someday)
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A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, by William Law
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Quitting the news
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Rupture
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Worrying about Heaven
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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The Lost World of Scripture
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The Grapes of Heavy-Handed Moralizing
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Science will not resolve the MMR/autism controversy
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Short story concept note
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More on Walking with the poor
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Walking with the Poor: When you try to be holistic and end up just being offensive
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I don’t know why C.S. Lewis was not a pacifist
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Moral ciphers
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Media fast
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Implied precision
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Profitable charity!
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Induction again
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Foot in the door
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The Narnian
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Reflections on a discipline
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Ancient Near Eastern Thought & Contemporary Western Thought
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Categories
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Evil perverting good
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Introduction to Christianity
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Among an alien people
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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A recent reflection
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Is from ought
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Introduction to Christianity, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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Barnaby Rudge
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An appreciation of a book that will never be read again
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Embracing ambiguity in moral judgments
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Exclusion and Embrace: the big-picture review
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On the shores of the Lethe: is oblivion the best we can do in addressing the problem of evil?
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Bombs away
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My contribution and my society’s contribution: a recycled college admission essay
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Two portraits of the other
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Exclusion and Embrace is an excellent book; now what are we talking about?
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Galileo’s trial and the anthropocentrism of scientific discovery
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Three cheers for initiative
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His Bondange and Our Bondage
 
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