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Feed the Mind; Nourish the Soul — a resource of the Center for Cultural Apologetics
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The Parable of the Gifted Maiden and Emerald Stranger (opens the original)
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For all the concerns about AI’s potential to destroy eduction, the good thing about AI is that it forced me to rethink my approach to academic integrity. I realize most of my readers are not educators, but I believe the approach outlined in this post translates directly to our parenting.In years past, I began each semester by covering in detail the classroom policies and procedures. I focused on telling students about the consequences for any violations of my expectations
Life Is Waiting (opens the original)
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“The refusal to be committedand the attitude of indifferencecan in fact never be neutral.”— J. B. PhillipsLast Saturday night, I sat with my wife folding laundry while watching The Terminal. In the movie, Viktor Navorski (played by Tom Hanks) travels to the United States to fulfill his father’s dying wish by collecting the autographs of 57 jazz musicians. War in his homeland, however, forces Viktor to live in the airport terminal.<p
Free Indeed: The Curse of Ham and the Lie of Race (Part 2 of 8) (opens the original)
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In Part 1, we met Connor, a man stuck between two race-essentialist stories: one which cast him as the villain, the other which cast him as the hero. Both stories treated Connor’s “White” identity as something fundamental to his nature. Dinner with Terrance and Sofia changed him.Connor saw something beautiful in their interracial marriage that neither of those stories could explain. Connor left Terrance’s dinner table with a rene
Holiness is Greater than Healing (opens the original)
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In the all of 2024, I sat down with a film crew to explore Mark Mark 2:1–12. On this occasion, Jesus enters the city of Capernaum. The crowd gathers inside a home to hear Jesus teach. Out of the crowd emerges four men carrying a paralytic. They hope Jesus will heal the man’s broken body. The crowd is so densely packed that the four men can’t get through, so they tear open the roof of the home and lower their paralyzed friend down to Jesus. So what is the point of this story?<a class="image-link
Don’t Let Ambition Keep You from Leading Like Jesus (opens the original)
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In the Spring of 2025, I sat down with a film crew to explore Mark 10:35–45 and the disciples’ response to Jesus final entry into Jerusalem. Prior to this incident, Jesus prophesied three times about his death and resurrection. Yet here, at the gates of Jerusalem and under the shadow of the cross, we find the disciples confused about their call to lead like Jesus. What can we, as followers, expect when we are called to follow Jesus?<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image
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