Category: virtues
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What’s wrong with the Church?
The one where I explain that the call is coming from inside the house.
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My “Confession,” or scattered notes on how to live as an ordinary, messy saint
The one where I, an unimpressive minister with ADHD, assure ordinary, unimpressive Christians that Jesus will meet them among the pots and pans of their messy kitchens.
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In defense of shame
Shame has taken quite a beating in modern popular psychology. But what if there’s something healthy about a proper sense of shame, which we abandon to our own moral and civic peril? In conversation with Aristotle, Brené Brown, St. Paul, and Joan Didion (among others), I humbly suggest that we understand shame in relation to…
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