HeyJaredTransient Ground
Daniel Silliman's observations on media, Christian history, and prayer.
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Mark Noll, Evangelical Traitor (opens the original)
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This is the fight I think about all the time: Mark Noll vs. Francis Schaeffer, 1982. Throw a rock, and you can find an evangelical historian in a fight. It’s a surprisingly contentious field, considering it is filled with scholars who are not, in my observation, personally contentious. But historians of American evangelicalism are often quarreling with other historians and, even more, with non-historians.But the conflict I return to—the one that has done the most to help me understand my own exp
How to Tell When Someone Is Lying (opens the original)
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Maybe it’s because I mostly interview people on the phone, but I don’t focus on eye contact. Or blinking. Or not blinking.My advice is ignore “body language” altogether.To catch someone in a lie, people will tell you have to pay close attention to the way they fidget or fold their arms, clear their throats or shift. But none of that’s really useful. Human behavior varies too much. There are social factors, cultural factors, and just individual diversity. Most of the time you don’t have a baselin
5 Good Things to Read (opens the original)
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Thrift stores—now included in the government’s calculations of the Consumer Price Index—are seeing steady increases in annual sales.It’s a good time to be in the thrift business,” said Kent A. Kramer president and CEO of Goodwill Legacy Group, Indianapolis, Indiana. … Since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic led people to clean out their closets, he estimates that every year has brought between a six and eight percent increase in foot traffic throughout the en
The Diet Guru’s Candy Bar (opens the original)
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The New Yorker writer must have known about the candy bar.In 2001, the magazine profiled Gwen Shamblin, the Christian diet guru promoting her “Weigh Down” program, which taught people that they would lose weight if they loved God more. The program was wildly popular—hosted at 1,000 churches in 1995, 15,000 in 1998—and there was a lot of news coverage. It was a good story, a talker.Many of the news pieces I found, researching <a href="https://roysreport.com/weigh-down-church-leader-sentenced-for-
5 Good Things to Read (opens the original)
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AI isn’t helping CEOs cut jobs as fast as they had hoped.In its 2025 survey, thirty-two per cent of respondents from organizations using A.I. said that they expected to see A.I.-related job cuts this year. In the latest survey, just fourteen per cent of respondents reported seeing actual A.I.-related job reductions. … Perhaps the hammer is still hanging over America’s knowledge workers; it just hasn’t fallen yet.A meditation researcher is startled to discove
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