Beliefs have consequences: "The way teens behave comes from something. Their attitudes and actions spring from their value system, and their value system is based on what they believe. Glen Schultz puts it this way: 'At the foundation of a person’s life
By focusing on well-known examples, Goodall, through his compelling writing style, points to easily identifiable signposts that trapped “great” men. The profiles in Why Great Men Fall give pause to others in similar environments: corporate execs, mini
Useful article with great links. For more than just pastors. Excerpt: The Assemblies of God "has identified five stages of porn use, each with its own required restoration process. * curiosity: requires three months professional counseling. * experimental
If you've never read this account and seen the images from the famous prisoner/guard experiment, check it out. This compelling read demonstrates how situation influences identity and that merely observing changes the observer.
This tendency to assign blame when we are morally outraged is commendable. It reveals that within the heart of man there still beats that sense of justice that was crafted by God and set there long, long ago. Fashioned in his image, we imperfect imitators
So, Farris Hassan wants to be a journalist. More: he wants to be an immersion journalist, the kind of writer who fully enters the story he’s covering, risking becoming part of the story, and hoping to craft something fuller, with more texture, with grea
"I’m wrestling with the statement about people having “a God-given, hardwired aversion to killing another human being”. I think it falls more in the basic survival instinct: if I kill someone, then the same could happen to me."
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