Alberta protests the word “truth” on Christian School statements as “unwelcoming”

https://www.parentchoice.ca/aggressive_attack_by_alberta_education

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Kavanaugh

But this is not what the Kavanaugh nomination seems to be about anymore. To half the country, it’s about the future of a Supreme Court nominee, pure and simple. To the other half, it’s about that — as well as a paradigm shift in the culture, belated reparation for unequal treatment, and a battle in the service of a moral revolution.

Much to the good. Then again, it’s worth remembering that revolutions borne by high ideals have a habit of eating their children. If the price of this revolution is the subordination of ordinary fairness to abstract justice, the elevation of rumor over fact, the further debasement of journalism, the devaluation of the rights of the accused, and the complete toxification of public service, it will be a price too high.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/kavanaugh-america-dreyfus-affair/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/kavanaugh-ford-hearings-everyone-lost-andrew-sullivan.html

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dreyfus-affair 

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Michael Ruse: “I’m an atheist but thank God I’m not a new atheist”

https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/I-m-an-atheist.-But-thank-God-I-m-not-a-New-Atheist

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Addict dies in school restroom where he taught

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Glen Loury and Amy Wax on Affirmative Action and #metoo

57:4

0 Kavanaugh said he was a virgin until after college

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17901368/kavanaugh-yearbook-boof-devil-triangle-renate-beach-week

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Ban the Box, hiring ex-cons

https://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hiring-state-and-local-guide/

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Implicit Bias Test

https://qz.com/1144504/the-world-is-relying-on-a-flawed-psychological-test-to-fight-racism/

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Unpacking Peggy’s Knapsack

https://quillette.com/2018/08/29/unpacking-peggy-mcintoshs-knapsack/

All of which means that pretty much anything you read about ‘white privilege’ is traceable to an ‘experiential’ essay written by a woman who benefitted [sic] from massive wealth, a panoply of aristocratic connections, and absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever.

 

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Anti-rivalry Andrew Sweeny

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Deep spirituality is anti-rivalrous by nature, as it is about the development of the soul rather than the ego. To be anti rivalrous is to be generous, it is to decry bad faith, to be soulful rather than shallow. Only by renouncing rivalry can one occupy that in-between space which Martin Buber calls ‘thou’ instead of ‘it’. Only in the intimate space of anti-rivalry can you create real spiritual value rather than resource depletion.

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Ryan Bell Humanist Pastor

https://news.usc.edu/149337/humanist-chaplain-winding-road-from-adventist-pastor-to-usc/

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