“A lot of people just don’t have the words. They don’t have words like ‘sin’ and ‘grace’”
David Brooks interview with Tavis Smiley
culture
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“The ubiquity of sexual images does not free eros but dilutes it”
“I like jazz because you can nap to it or dance to it”
“I like jazz because you can nap to it or dance to it”
—Bella
History “is not on the side of those who brook no dissent, ignore all counter-evidence, and demonize all opposition”
“The US payday loans crisis: Borrow $100 to make ends meet, owe 36 times that sum”
Thank you, Mexico…
“Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think”
“For the first time, [people] have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.”
— Peter Drucker
“This is not a love story. This is not even an erotic story”
Seattle Flukes v. New England Cheats
Super Bowl XLIX
“The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship”
—Scott Belsky
“Could it be that France is in the early stages of a Christian revival?”
“Reforming health care means fiddling with an industry that is larger than the economies of all but five countries”
“Contrary to what many books say, do not start with yourself…. your self-knowledge is limited.”
Tim Keller on vocation.
“Normalization of Pornography Fuels the Rape Culture”
Pornography’s ever-increasing ubiquity is as well-documented as it is self-evident. With this ubiquity comes normalcy. Never has pornography been easier to access or, it would seem, so uncontroversial to view.