“What if you and your family were starving, and someone with an abundance of food responded by offering ‘their thoughts and prayers’?” “Stop praying,” you’d say. “Do something.” A preponderance of these and similar reactions fire around Twitter in the wake of a...
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Your authentic self isn’t enough
Watching the Bachelor is like watching a televised version of your social media accounts. You see a selection of filtered profiles – each person putting forward a version of their authentic self which they hope others will find attractive and winsome. Rising above the...
The soil of apathy Part II
Contending that our age is apathetic can sound tone deaf in the face of daily turmoil, upheaval, and unrest. However, these two realities are not so opposed as you might believe. Our apathy-saturated soil yields similar results to the rocky ground in Jesus' parable of...