Category: Culture
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Your church is not a restaurant: the customer service mentality and its danger to the American church
In America, where we have so many options with everything, every business with which we interact lives and dies on our satisfaction. And we often treat churches in much the same way. Like it’s just another business that we’re patronizing. Where if you’re not happy with a church, if you decide you don’t like something…
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Finding your passion – what if that’s the wrong starting place?
My generation grew up with the VCR. We were able to watch the same Disney movies over and over and over again. We saw the fairytales and the happily ever after. I’m not a psychologist, but I sometimes wonder if that was imprinted in our psyche as if we have a soul mate, one specific…
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The only resolution that matters for 2019
Originally published December 31, 2014 At the beginning of each year, millions of Americans make new year’s resolutions. Common resolutions include eating healthier, saving more money, quitting smoking, or learning a new skill. All of those are great things. But the reason why we create new year’s resolutions is because there are areas in our…
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Best of 2018. #1 Researchers troll academic journals with ridiculous hoax papers, they still get published
As 2018 comes to a close, I am sharing some of my top posts from this year. A trio of concerned academics has published seven intentionally absurd papers in leading scholarly journals as part of an investigation to expose extreme bias in fields that study race, gender, sexuality, and other politically-charged topics. The trio say the papers,…
Josh Benner 