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without endnotes

When I wrote my dissertation, I created endnotes. I generated pages and pages of references to the writing of other people. I pointed to places in books and articles written by other people as I tried to show that what I was saying was consistent with other people, was supported by knowledgeable people, was nothing […]

The window or the mirror

I want to write about judging. I want to write without being judgmental. I create examples of extreme finickiness and then think, “but isn’t that being judgmental, reflecting my own bias against finickiness?” And I am convicted. And I save the post and start over. Because Jesus says that the standard that I use to […]

The main attraction

[Matthew 4:12-17] It is so easy to imagine how things might have looked around Jesus. We read that after John was arrested, Jesus goes back to Galilee. From this time on, Matthew says, Jesus will start preaching exactly the same message that John was preaching: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven in near. We see […]