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Immigration: The Perennial Moral Panic (Guest Post)
It is fairly common for commentators from De Tocqueville to George Friedman to characterize America as a "young nation." As such, common with youth, America tends to have fairly short collective...
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The Business of Innovation
Dr. David R. Andersen, Ph.D.(Guest Post)Truly revolutionary people come sparingly, perhaps once or twice in a lifetime. Because of this we tend to look at them as almost larger than life; yet they...
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Work from Your Soul
Dr. David R. Andersen, Ph.D. (Guest Post) We’ve all worked with people who never seem happy in their profession. They come in on time, do their job and follow the letter of the law, but they have no...
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VOCATION: OUR ENVIRONMENT’S ONLY HUMAN HOPE
What does an environmental hero typically look like? Birkenstocks? Beard? A peace sign patch on an old denim jacket? How about a suit and tie? That last look is what Dr. Jack Brouwer is rocking in a...
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Tiananmen Square, The Picture of A Protest (and that's about it)
By Dr. Daniel van Voorhis25 Years ago today (June 5th, 1989) we were delivered one of the more striking photos of civil resistance in the 20th century: the lone student standing in front of the tank...
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Omotenashi: Japan & Astounding Hospitality
Getting lost in a subway system is disorienting, especially when the signs use an unfamiliar alphabet. A colleague and I found ourselves in such a situation, during a work trip to Japan. We had just...
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Give Peace in Our Time O Lord! (Or, why agnostics should agree that Jesus is...
[This post is addressed to agnostics who are interested in reducing global violence. Others are welcome to eaves drop. I am a Christian, but the League of Faithful Masks is non-sectarian, and the...
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Back To School ... and Sorrow
Back to school advertisements are cruel. Are we adults unaware of how we can ruin a child's joy with fall-themed displays--when it is still summer--at department stores? One of the only unfettered...
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ST. AUGUSTINE AS A GUIDE TO HONORABLE CLASSROOM DISCUSSION OF CONTROVERSIAL...
[Previously Presented at the ACTC 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE] Dr. Jeff Mallinson, Concordia University, Irvine My anxious heart races, Lord, in this impoverished life of mine, when the words of your Holy...
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Advice to Alex: How to Traverse the Postmodern Wasteland
By Jeff Mallinson, D.Phil.[Note: this piece is more overtly Christian and theological than other posts on this site. It asks how Christians ought to behave and engage others in our postmodern context...
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The Holy Plumb Line
THE HOLY PLUMB LINE My favorite meal is the English Big Breakfast. It comprises a rasher of back bacon, fried eggs, grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, sausages, and...
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The following two videos are lectures LFM director Jeff Mallinson delivered at Faith Lutheran Church, Capo Beach, CA. They were delivered at the beginning of his work with LFM and its podcast, Virtue...
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Volkswagen & Germany's Lost Virtue
“Arrogance is the art to take pride in its own stupidity,” says an astute German aphorism allegedly coined by Goethe. Arrogance comes to mind as the most charitable attribute when considering...
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JUST WAR AND ISIS
The Christian tradition has a long history of pondering the circumstances under which, if at all, war might be justifiable. Augustine, Aquinas, and modern ethicists have developed several important...
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Education & Augustine's Confessions
By Samantha Leanza, guest contributor.--- St. Augustine’s Confessions is often viewed as a personal account of spiritual development in the early church, but its implications for education are hard to...
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How Bach became a Hit in Japan
By UWE SIEMON-NETTO Forty years ago when there was still a Communist East Germany, I interviewed several boys from Leipzig’s Thomanerchor, the choir once led by Johann Sebastian Bach. Many of those...
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Back To School ... and Sorrow
Back to school advertisements are cruel. Are we adults unaware of how we can ruin a child's joy with fall-themed displays--when it is still summer--at department stores? One of the only unfettered...
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ST. AUGUSTINE AS A GUIDE TO HONORABLE CLASSROOM DISCUSSION OF CONTROVERSIAL...
[Previously Presented at the ACTC 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE] Dr. Jeff Mallinson, Concordia University, Irvine My anxious heart races, Lord, in this impoverished life of mine, when the words of your Holy...
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Advice to Alex: How to Traverse the Postmodern Wasteland
By Jeff Mallinson, D.Phil.[Note: this piece is more overtly Christian and theological than other posts on this site. It asks how Christians ought to behave and engage others in our postmodern context...
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The Holy Plumb Line
THE HOLY PLUMB LINE My favorite meal is the English Big Breakfast. It comprises a rasher of back bacon, fried eggs, grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, sausages, and...
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