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The Architecture of Truth
Today we are battered with a never-ending barrage of competing truths. Social media overwhelms us with topics on how to live our best lives but eventually we discover just how conflicting these truths really are. With this constant stream of incompatible assertions, it is difficult to find footing in the architecture of truth. It almost seems that objective truth has been put on trial. Untruths are being promoted by politicians’ quest for power and populism’s drive for attention. The idea that there are many different truths seems appropriate for today’s pluralistic world but when we can define our own truth, truth is derived from the one with the loudest voice. The apostle Paul addres...
Playing Favorites
According to recent research, our brains prefer the path of least resistance when it comes to engaging people who are unlike us—in fact, our brains tell us to perceive anyone different than us as a threat. That is a nice way to say that, despite our best intentions, we all have our prejudices and preferences. In biblical terms, we show partiality toward people who resemble us; we play favorites. Much of our identity, community, and power are established by the measurement of our differences from others, justifying our need to categorize people. Even when we attempt to engage other races and cultures, we see it as a one-way bridge, taking our way of life across the river to enlighten those different than us. It assumes we are on the bank of the undistorted view of the world and our understanding of the other side is not important. The proper response is to encourage two-way traffic on the bridge, not only by having dialogue with people over the bridge but more importantly listening to them. Overcoming our prejudices and bridging the cultural divide is the result of living out the gospel and it is the most significant way to communicate the gospel.
Preaching with Cultural Intelligence
To preach effectively in today's world, preachers need cultural intelligence. They must build bridges between listeners who come from various denominations, ethnicities, genders, locations, religious backgrounds, and more. Experienced preacher and teacher Matthew Kim provides a step-by-step template for cross-cultural hermeneutics and homiletics, equipping preachers to reach their varied listeners in the church and beyond. Each chapter includes questions for individual thought or group discussion. The book also includes helpful diagrams and images, a sample sermon, and appendixes for exegeting listeners and for exploring cultural differences.
Edward Kennedy
In this groundbreaking biography of Edward Kennedy, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines a lifetime of research and reporting with a lively mixture of never–before–told anecdotes (including the definitive version of the incident at Chappaquiddick, the details of which Kennedy himself filled in for Hersh shortly after it occurred) to create a broad yet unfailingly intimate portrait of the politician who would be universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's greatest American legislators. Hersh was acquainted with Kennedy since his college days, and the result here is a unique series of revelations that serve to reinterpret the senator's public and private personas. ...
Priorities in Agricultural Research of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Rural Poverty
Record of hearings before the national advisory commission on rural area poverty in the USA - covers rural development, unemployment, rural migration, health, education and vocational training, home economics and community development for rural workers, housing and employment opportunities for minority groups (incl. Blacks), etc.
