Write drunk; edit sober.
Ernest Hemingway

Be Persistent in Creative Work

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Ira Glass, the host of This American Life, talks about the struggles of getting started in a creative field. Although he’s talking about his own experience in the radio business, the lessons are universal: don’t give up.

A Few Lessons of Nonviolence

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Mark Van Steenwyk has an interesting post up at Jesus Manifesto called The 25 Lessons of Nonviolence. I don’t agree with all of them (and Mark doesn’t necessarily either), but they are thought-provoking nonetheless. A few of my favourites: Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them. The state imagines it is impotent without … Read more →

The Witness of the Gospel as Gift

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After putting it down for a while, I’ve picked up Chris K. Huebner’s excellent and challenging book A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, And Identity again. Here is a passage that translates a commitment to peace into a rejection of notions of witness that strive to guarantee conversion: To say that witness is … Read more →