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“Higher” Stages Aren’t Always More Mature
The Limits of Developmental Theory
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What Do We Lose When We Lose Worship?
Recently, my son asked what church is like for most Christians in America. (He’s been to a variety of services from a range of traditions, but never an…
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Language for Theists and Atheists Alike
In my previous post, I wrote about how religion is a “language” for communicating about the transcendent — a language that uses a bundle of methods…
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Religion Is a Language: Reza Aslan at BYU
Last night I heard Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, speak at Brigham Young University. I read Zealot nearly a…
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The Substacks I Love
I built a following on Medium a year before it became clear that Substack, not Medium, was the future of independent online writing. Since then I’ve…
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My Slumps and Highs With Mindfulness
Plus an Invitation to Join in Person
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Just Let Kids Be Vs. Have a Structure to Explore Values Together
An Inner Dialogue
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Love the World As You Change It
I can’t stop thinking about footage I saw years ago of a plastic-filled junkyard contrasted with a timelapse of a tomato disintegrating into dirt. The…
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