By: Adam Harris on March 21, 2024
“In Judaism, we take a strong view on this, and we have now for 2,000 years and we say reading the Bible literally is heresy”.[i] This surprising statement was made by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, an orthodox chief Rabbi from the United Kingdom, in a lively debate with one of the most famous atheist and Evolutionary…
By: Jenny Dooley on March 21, 2024
I want to know Christ — yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Philippians 3:10 NIV I approached Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson with anticipation and a weary brain. The academic writing style was dense and certain…
By: Mathieu Yuill on March 21, 2024
Navigating through Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief feels akin to embarking on a dense archaeological dig, where instead of unearthing fossils you’re discovering facets of human belief, through the unveiling of mythology, religion, and psychology. Peterson’s This book isn’t merely academic; it’s a deep dive into the collective human psyche, exploring…
By: Scott Dickie on March 20, 2024
If you have read and digested Jordan Peterson’s somewhat recent offering, 12 Rules for Life (1), you might have picked up his much earlier work, Maps of Meaning (2), and expected to plow through it somewhat quickly and easily. If you had such a presumption, you would recognize your error around page three. Maps of…
By: Kally Elliott on March 20, 2024
My twenty-one-year-old son is agnostic. Or atheist. Or something else. He is not a Christian. Of that he is sure, but, if I understand him correctly, he doesn’t find religion relevant enough to his life to be defined by a specific belief or religious system. This young adult was baptized, raised and confirmed in the…
By: Pam Lau on March 19, 2024
The first time I heard the name Jordan Peterson was in 2018. Sitting in the back two rows of my Fall 2018 communication courses was a group of young men between the ages of 22-30 who found themselves enrolled in college after time serving in the military. Several weeks into listening to their responses to…
By: Russell Chun on March 19, 2024
Ztracen ve tmě. Lost in the dark – Czech Flashback Part 1 What my peers are saying Part 2 What Peterson taught me. Epilogue – New Map/Old Map Flashback Scene #1 – Steelpot jammed on his head, flashlight in hand – fighting the dark, wind threatening to rip the map from his hands, the 2LT…
By: Esther Edwards on March 19, 2024
“Meaning is the most profound manifestation of instinct.”[1] One of the most inspiring stories of human resilience was that of Victor Frankl. Dr. Frankl wrote a detailed account of his life as a prisoner in the Nazi death camps where he lost his beloved wife, mother, father, and brother. Out of his loss and the…
By: John Fehlen on March 19, 2024
“Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand.” Jordan Peterson in Maps of Meaning When I read the opening sentence of Map of Meaning I instantly knew we were in for a doozy of a book. I’m somewhat familiar with Peterson’s more current writings, social media posts, podcasts, blogs, and YouTube…
By: Tim Clark on March 18, 2024
Every week, as we begin class, Dr. Clark gives our cohort the coffee table test: “If a person saw the book that we all read this week on your coffee table, and asked what it was about, what would you tell them?”. This week we read Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief,…
By: Jennifer Vernam on March 18, 2024
Written in 1999, Jordan B Peterson’s Maps of Meaning[1] endeavored to help us make sense of the world’s cache of stories and myths that shared similar symbols and meanings. His assertion is that when we pay attention to the patterns we see in the narratives we use, we uncover helpful and necessary truths about ourselves…
By: Travis Vaughn on March 18, 2024
Has one of your favorite singers or bands ever decided to go unplugged? One of the bands I’ve enjoyed listening to over the past twenty years is Rise Against. In 2018, they forewent their typical electric, frenetic, punk rock sound to go acoustic in Ghost Note Symphonies. The compilation album included some of their songs…
By: Jana Dluehosh on March 15, 2024
Let me tell you a story about a shy, little girl. She happened to be part of a family that a lot of people knew and sometimes put on a pedestal. They were talented and outgoing. This little girl did not want any attention, she just wanted to live her life. In her sophomore year…
By: Esther Edwards on March 15, 2024
“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.” (E. B. White)[1] E.B. White is referring to writing. However, we all carry our own ‘slants’ whether we are writers or not.…
By: Russell Chun on March 15, 2024
माइक्रोएग्रेशन्स: मजबूत दावे, अपर्याप्त सबूत, Microaggressions: Strong Claims, Inadequate Evidence – Hindi Introduction: Part 1: DEI/Microaggressions Part 2: Critiquing Microaggressions Epilogue: Something for Christians Introduction DEI…Microaggressions are terms that are relatively new to me. While the injustices in the workplace bear revealing and active discussion. I am unsure about the “over activism” that has emerged…
By: Cathy Glei on March 15, 2024
In the last three years, our district has done a deep dive into helping staff across the district unravel implicit and explicit biases as author Pragya Agarwal, of the book Sway: Unraveling unconscious bias, proposes. Our district has strongly encouraged staff to become a part of the Justice Leaders Collaborative, a platform for social justice…
By: Dinka Utomo on March 14, 2024
I am very grateful to be able to be in this lecture program which brings me together with brilliant minds who build awareness to think critically about thoughts and attitudes of racism, inequality, exclusion, denigration, and the like. This program guides and shapes students to think and behave as leaders on a global scale. Namely,…
By: Adam Harris on March 14, 2024
A few months ago while I was reading through Luke’s Gospel I noticed how Jesus wrapped up a statement that caused me to think, “Huh, I never noticed that.” To give some context, in this section of Luke 5:37-39, Jesus is cautioning his listeners about putting new wine in old wineskins, and at the end…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on March 14, 2024
“During Hurricane Katrina in the US, two photographs in particular made news amid the wide-spread havoc and destruction. In one photo, a dark-skinned young man is shown in New Orleans flood-waters, a 12-pack of Pepsi under his right arm, holding a garbage bag with his left hand. A caption read: ‘A young man walks…
By: Mathieu Yuill on March 14, 2024
In August 1999 I was living at my parents house but our relationship was bad. Towards the end of the month they told me I had to leave and I had three days to move out. Heading into my second year of college and without much in the way of reserve funds I took to…
