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Category Archives: Philosophy

Where Does the World Need You?

December 28, 2013

In a recent article in Cardus Comment Magazine titled, “Where Does the World Need Me?” folk from all walks of life gave their answer …

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A New Humanity

December 2, 2013

My friend and fellow intellectual, John-Mark Hart, wrote a great piece titled, “God’s New Humanity” that got me to thinking …

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What Breaks Your Heart?

September 28, 2013

I’ve had the great privilege of teaching a Service Leadership course at two different schools, and the one thing I …

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We Will Be Known By Our Love

September 18, 2013

The Martin family is trying something new: we are beginning a discussion with our seven and three-year old around the …

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The Satanic Predicament

September 4, 2013

Scholars have long suggested that the most appealing character in John Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost, is not God, or The …

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RePost: The End of the World

August 21, 2013

**My next post, Schooling for the End of the World (where schooling and eschatology meet), will be a philosophical theology of …

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Speaking prophetically

August 15, 2013

In his seminal book on the subject, Abraham Heschel describes the prophet as one who is not as concerned with …

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A Philosophy of Work

July 28, 2013

In a previous post, I fleshed out what I believe to be a Theology of Work rooted in seeing systemic …

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There and Back Again

July 14, 2013

Since there are a good number of you who have just recently joined the conversation, I thought it might be …

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American Polytheism (Or, The [G]ods We Serve)

July 1, 2013

**This post is a workshopping of a book I am outlining called, tentatively, The [G]ods We Serve. I welcome any …

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