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Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives: Crafting Ministry in an Interconnected World

Getting Used to the Dark

By: on March 21, 2024

Cut Flowers of Morality I decided to watch a few videos after reading Matthew Petrusek’s book Evangelization and Ideology this week. One in particular was very interesting as it featured so many of our authors. This video opened with a story by Petrusek about morality in our society today, or the lack thereof. He used…

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Wrong Again

By: on March 21, 2024

From Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz and What’s Your Problem by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg to Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, I have been fully convinced that I, and everyone else is wrong. Already believing I was wrong made it seem pointless to read another book about being wrong.  Wrong, again. According to Bobby Duffy, understanding ‘why’…

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Jordan Peterson’s Midrash

By: 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…

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The Ultimate Map of Meaning in Times of Suffering

By: 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…

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I was Wrong about this one

By: on March 21, 2024

I bristled when I started reading Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy this week. After reading the first several chapters, my reaction was that it was just another book confirming what we already read, things aren’t always what they seem. I thought his reference to Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow was…

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Staying Positive through the Muck

By: on March 21, 2024

This text message was from two weeks ago. Doug was my old cellmate (hence his calling me “bunk,” (short for “bunkie”). He just entered rehab (an expensive one at that – $1000.00 a day!!) for the fourth or fifth time. Doug and I shared life together for about two years as bunkmates, or “cellies,” which…

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The World is NOT Going to Hell in a Handbasket!

By: on March 21, 2024

“United Nations adviser calls for White people to be stripped of their power,” Fox News Headline. ‘That Sounds like ethnic cleansing’: Clarissa Ward questions lead figure in Israel’s settler movement, CNN News Headline. It’s Official, Biden – Trump set for a rematch, BBC World News. If you are like me and millions of other people,…

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We live in a system that breeds delusion.

By: on March 21, 2024

I recently had an amazing holiday! Or was it simply ‘average’? Or was that other holiday better? Bobby Duffy of King’s College London, in a talk about his book, “Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything”, quoted a 1994 study by Professors Terrence Mitchell and Leigh Thompson to unpack what they dubbed “rosy retrospective”. [1] In…

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Media Biases (Berat-Sebelah Media)

By: on March 20, 2024

Bobby Duffy is the author of the book, Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding. Duffy draws on numerous public-opinion studies conducted by himself and colleagues across various countries, focusing on social and political questions. In his book, Duffy offers several valuable lessons about human cognition, biases and understanding such as:…

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Dealing With My Delusions About Leadership

By: on March 20, 2024

In 2018 a Canadian woman rented a black Nissan Sentra sedan. She drove to a nearby Walmart. When she came out of the store she hopped in her car and drove home. However, she jumped in the wrong car, a black Infiniti hatchback, and drove off. It turns out that the owner had gone into…

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Biases exposed

By: on March 20, 2024

I hate that we have implicit biases and I find it so uncomfortable when they are exposed (although I’m also grateful).  Growing up in a conservative state and family, I had biases towards LGBTQ+ population. In recent years some of these were exposed, and thankfully changed.  Someone very dear in my life identified as transgender…

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An Angry Pink Cow

By: on March 20, 2024

Name a food with a hole in it… Did you say donuts, cheese, onion rings, bagels? Do you think your answer would match with everyone else’s? If so, you are in the herd; if not, you are the odd one out. Welcome to the game Herd Mentality. It’s a group game my family has enjoyed…

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There is a Map but Does it Hold Meaning Anymore?

By: 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…

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Systemic Worry

By: on March 20, 2024

One of my favorite movies is “Waking Life,” first watched almost 25 years ago while teaching in the Black Studies Department at Califoria State University, Long Beach (CSULB).  I shared clips from the film with my students and we used them as prompts to critically think and write about our understanding of life.  Why We’re…

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Fifty Shades of Freud

By: on March 19, 2024

Matt Petrusek, in a lecture on Wokeism- The Frankenstein of Political Ideologies (Lecture 1) shared a story from 2006 when a Duke Lacrosse Team was accused of raping a young woman. [1] I was curious about the details of this story, so I found a You tube: Presumed Guilty: Due Process Lessons of the Duke…

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I’ll Just Keep Telling Their Stories

By: on March 19, 2024

I get the opportunity regularly to speak to different churches in my area about refugees and immigrants. Sometimes, it is a separate class or a small group that invites me to speak and they are eager to hear more information. Then, other times, it is a brief overview to the whole congregation and then I…

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Wisdom is the Redemptive Knowledge

By: 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…

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Ztracen ve tmě. Lost in the dark – Czech

By: 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…

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