Heal the West
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Focused on combating illiberalism and extremism via spiritual formation and rebuilding the American community.
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Avoiding Burnout • When we spend every moment self-optimizing, life becomes exhausting.
Avoiding Burnout
When we spend every moment self-optimizing, life becomes exhausting.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Avoiding Burnout • When we spend every moment self-optimizing, life becomes exhausting.
How Do We Know That What We’re Hearing Is From God? • God absolutely speaks to us. But how do we know when it’s Him speaking?
How Do We Know That What We’re Hearing Is From God?
God absolutely speaks to us. But how do we know when it’s Him speaking?
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December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How Do We Know That What We’re Hearing Is From God? • God absolutely speaks to us. But how do we know when it’s Him speaking?
Can Letting Go Of Our Shame Heal Our Society? • Lessons from Frasier Crane
Can Letting Go Of Our Shame Heal Our Society?
Lessons from Frasier Crane
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can Letting Go Of Our Shame Heal Our Society? • Lessons from Frasier Crane
Bridge-Building Takes Courage • Sometimes we maintain an estrangement because we don't want to face our own worst actions.
Bridge-Building Takes Courage
Sometimes we maintain an estrangement because we don't want to face our own worst actions.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bridge-Building Takes Courage • Sometimes we maintain an estrangement because we don't want to face our own worst actions.
Can Status Fill the Hole In Our Hearts? • No, but there’s something else that can.
Can Status Fill the Hole In Our Hearts?
No, but there’s something else that can.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can Status Fill the Hole In Our Hearts? • No, but there’s something else that can.
There Are No Bad People • I worry that we’re erasing the line between “he has bad ideas” and “he’s a bad person.”
There Are No Bad People
I worry that we’re erasing the line between “he has bad ideas” and “he’s a bad person.”
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There Are No Bad People • I worry that we’re erasing the line between “he has bad ideas” and “he’s a bad person.”
Should We Carry the Weight of the World On Our Shoulders? • Does God want us to be exhausted and burned out?
Should We Carry the Weight of the World On Our Shoulders?
Does God want us to be exhausted and burned out?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Should We Carry the Weight of the World On Our Shoulders? • Does God want us to be exhausted and burned out?
The Importance of Rest • The Sabbath isn't a break from the rest of the week. Instead, it's a model for how to live.
The Importance of Rest
The Sabbath isn't a break from the rest of the week. Instead, it's a model for how to live.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Importance of Rest • The Sabbath isn't a break from the rest of the week. Instead, it's a model for how to live.
Thoughts On the Decline and Fall of Kanye West • I think we owe it to those around us to be(come) our best selves.
Thoughts On the Decline and Fall of Kanye West
I think we owe it to those around us to be(come) our best selves.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thoughts On the Decline and Fall of Kanye West • I think we owe it to those around us to be(come) our best selves.
"People Are Hard to Hate Close Up" • I've learned that reading about people is a poor substitute for talking to them.
"People Are Hard to Hate Close Up"
I've learned that reading about people is a poor substitute for talking to them.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"People Are Hard to Hate Close Up" • I've learned that reading about people is a poor substitute for talking to them.
The Darkness • What if we spent less time trying to persuade, and more time listening?
The Darkness
What if we spent less time trying to persuade, and more time listening?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Darkness • What if we spent less time trying to persuade, and more time listening?
On Differing Perspectives • What if we spent more time listening to each other's stories?
On Differing Perspectives
What if we spent more time listening to each other's stories?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On Differing Perspectives • What if we spent more time listening to each other's stories?
A Kernel of Faith Is All It Takes • How much faith is required for healing prayer to work? Less than we might think.
A Kernel of Faith Is All It Takes
How much faith is required for healing prayer to work? Less than we might think.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A Kernel of Faith Is All It Takes • How much faith is required for healing prayer to work? Less than we might think.
It Will Never Be Enough • Money can't fill the hole inside of us. So why do we think it can?
It Will Never Be Enough
Money can't fill the hole inside of us. So why do we think it can?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It Will Never Be Enough • Money can't fill the hole inside of us. So why do we think it can?
How to See the Miracle in the Everyday • Can filling our own cup help us to see more of the beauty of the world?
How to See the Miracle in the Everyday
Can filling our own cup help us to see more of the beauty of the world?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How to See the Miracle in the Everyday • Can filling our own cup help us to see more of the beauty of the world?
If Heaven Is Real, How Should We Feel About Death? • Or: if I believe that my friend is in Heaven, why am I sad?
If Heaven Is Real, How Should We Feel About Death?
Or: if I believe that my friend is in Heaven, why am I sad?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If Heaven Is Real, How Should We Feel About Death? • Or: if I believe that my friend is in Heaven, why am I sad?
How Does God See Us? • As beings more radiant and more beautiful than our mortal minds could ever comprehend.
How Does God See Us?
As beings more radiant and more beautiful than our mortal minds could ever comprehend.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How Does God See Us? • As beings more radiant and more beautiful than our mortal minds could ever comprehend.
Depolarization Starts Within • "The only reason we have external conflict in the world is because people are living with internal conflict."
Depolarization Starts Within
"The only reason we have external conflict in the world is because people are living with internal conflict."
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Depolarization Starts Within • "The only reason we have external conflict in the world is because people are living with internal conflict."
Can God Cause A Paradigm Shift? • I think the stories we tell about ourselves matter.
Can God Cause A Paradigm Shift?
I think the stories we tell about ourselves matter.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can God Cause A Paradigm Shift? • I think the stories we tell about ourselves matter.
Does God Hate Atheists? • God looks on you with great compassion and love, even if you look on him with scorn and derision.
Does God Hate Atheists?
God looks on you with great compassion and love, even if you look on him with scorn and derision.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Does God Hate Atheists? • God looks on you with great compassion and love, even if you look on him with scorn and derision.