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The Good Life is a Sent Life
What missional theology teaches us about a flourishing life.
Jul 17
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Actions Can Be "Illegal". Human Beings Cannot.
Before a single home is burned or a single family is torn apart, a word has already done the work. The second essay in a series on the global…
Jul 10
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Anti-Foreigner Protests and the Problem of Broken Native Belonging
The anti-foreigner wave sweeping three continents is being read as a story about hatred. Underneath it is something the science of belonging can name…
Jul 8
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The Mercy of a Roof: 106 Degrees, and Nowhere to Go
America's deadliest weather does not make for dramatic television. It arrives without wind or siren, and it kills the people we have already stopped…
Jul 5
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America at 250: The Psychology of What America Means to Us
On the 250th anniversary, place attachment theory offers a way to see two kinds of Americans clearly, and the debt one owes the other.
Jul 3
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The Cost of Competence
Light is rarely resented for being false. It is resented for being bright. What do you owe a room that would rather stay dim?
Jul 1
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June 2026
Wellbeing, Thriving, Flourishing: Three Words We Keep Using as if They Mean the Same Thing
On wellbeing, flourishing, and thriving, and why mixing them up changes how we research, counsel, and pray for people.
Jun 26
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There Is No Such Thing as Spiritual but Not Religious
A psychology of religion argument for the sacred core and why religion and spirituality were never two different things
Jun 23
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They Bombed the Cathedral. The Sky Is Still Open.
A study of religious believers reveals something unexpected about resilience: when the places we hold sacred are taken from us, a great many of us can…
Jun 22
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The Octagon and the Republic: Amusing Ourselves to Death at 250
When a nation celebrates its 250th birthday with a cage fight on the White House lawn, Neil Postman's long warning in "Amusing Ourselves to Death…
Jun 16
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Three Crises in Our World Today
We speak of an identity crisis, a loneliness epidemic, and a crisis of meaning. I have come to believe they are all different names for the same…
Jun 12
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May 2026
We Pathologized Masculinity and Created a Monster
The rise of incel culture and online misogyny is the predictable consequence of men receiving the message that their longing for connection is itself a…
May 30
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