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While working on a book about compassion and empathy I became interested in Paul Brown’s essay “The Baby in the Well” in the New Yorker. Paul Bloom argues about the limitations of empathy. Morality should be beyond empathy and he uses known phenomena “the identifiable victim effect” to claim that empathy leads us astray in moral judgments.
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My words whirlpool around my neck, with very few escaping. My mouth captured only a couple words to form barely intelligible phrases. Yes, I had won a poetry contest, publication and $25. All good things for a 19-year-old aspiring writer. Though, it was only third place and the publication was only in the university’s literary journal.
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I found this New York op-ed by Dr. T. M Luhrmann very interesting and so was the comment section. In it Lurhrmann explains some of her findings in her 10 years of research on evangelical churches. She took an anthropological approach. This article looks at the benefits of engaging in church.
Many in the comment section say they champion critical thinking, but seem to let it go if the evidence says something they don't want to hear. We all are blind by our biases at some point.
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An old theological debate has emerged with new life in our secular world. Are we free or are we predestined? The old debate rooted itself in terms of God’s power. God creates us and since God is all knowing and all-powerful, our whole creation has already been determined. The secular version’s foundation comes from biological determinism.
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Riding the Spokane bus system the last nine years has given me a front seat to the most dramatic cultural challenge today. Riding the bus to commute to work everyday, I see the same faces on the same routes, even though some things have changed over the years. What is the difference between when I started and now? Then people became acquaintances and said hello.
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Community, the new buzz word of churches, suffers from two fables. With apologies to the Bard and his dear crazy King Lear, these tales are told by an idiot, full of trumpets and banquets, signifying unreality.
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A city reveals its soul in its festivals. So what does Spokane say in front of this mirror? Lilac Parade, Hoopfest, Bloomsday, First Night, the Guild School Penny Drive and so many more all tell the tale of a mid-size American city still holding onto its small town roots that loves basketball, its children and health.
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Forgiveness, valuing the relationship beyond the actions, forms the stuff of Jesus’ love. Forgiveness of sins means that Jesus values love so much that despite all that has happen, he still wants to laugh and share stories.
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In 1971, in the midst of his political down fall, President Nixon journeyed to China in a historic mission of diplomacy. Soon, a place of mystery opened to Americans. Teacher tours. Student tours. Americans saw their first glimpse of a China that would soon pass away, Mao’s China.
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Bukowski, mailman, poet, short story writer, novelist, self-proclaimed unrecognized genius, chronicler of the underside of American life and reprobate; what writer coming of age in the 1980s did not know Bukowski? None of our teachers taught him, rather he was the dark secret that we striving poets and writers passed around.
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Because he grew up in El Paso, Texas, on the edge of Juarez, Mexico, Ernesto Tinajero understands what it means to live on the border.
Art, he says, comes from the border of what has come before and what is coming next. Tinajero uses his experience studying poetry and theology to write about the...
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