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About PaulVK

Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Cute blonde Christian girl doesn’t want to be conservative pundit

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/17/17247314/conservative-pundit-reality-tv-tomi-lahren-ann-coulter

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Reza Aslan on who is God, a divine version of ourselves, projection

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The success sequence

Assumed: sex, cohabitation, education, job, material security, marriage, children https://ifstudies.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-the-success-sequence Bloodless moralism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/02/bloodless-moralism all moral claims [must] be translated into material terms. … Bad behavior can be condemned only if it is shown to correlate with some quantifiable negative outcome like … Continue reading

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Men don’t read Christian women authors (much)

https://twitter.com/AgnewsDei/status/985921101237768192

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Thomas Sowell shares some of his story

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Franklin Graham on Donald Trump as “a man who understand the power of prayer and the need for prayer”, not a parody

Not a parody. https://t.co/VDwlCHlqte — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 15, 2018 .@Franklin_Graham: “I just appreciate that we have a man in office that understands the power of prayer and the need for prayer.” pic.twitter.com/HttINFc3JR — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 15, … Continue reading

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Is Toxic Masculinity a Valid Concept?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/homo-consumericus/201803/is-toxic-masculinity-valid-concept

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Aaron Renn on JBP in Mere Orthodoxy

https://mereorthodoxy.com/jordan-petersons-folk-wisdom/

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CUNY students try to shut down a law scholar’s attempt to discuss free speech and hate speech

https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/12/cuny-josh-blackman-students-speech https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/985490905829343232 The most concerning bit for me was a law student asking: “How are we going to clean up the minds of those with hateful thoughts?” https://t.co/s2hR3job28 — Benjamin🪤Boyce (@BenjaminABoyce) April 15, 2018

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Stories infuse spiritual beliefs, they are not about them.

Gary D Schmidt captured the essence of faith and writing: “Stories are infused with our spiritual beliefs; they are not about our spiritual beliefs.” #ffwgr — Lori Johnson (@loribetch) April 15, 2018

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