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Mobs, Part 1
The reality of mobs The formation of angry mobs lies at the heart of the politics of modernity. We are living in an age of mobs, restless hordes of angry people intent on destroying evil. Stirring up...
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Mobs, Part 2
The choice between Jesus and Satan We live in an age of rival mobs. Jesus is the main exemplar of a different way. It’s not a misreading of the gospel to see that untangling this knot-like pattern was...
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Mobs, Part 3
The first stone To throw the first stone, one must step out of the crowd and act alone. During his brief public career, Jesus repeatedly faced mobs. One well-known incident involved a woman whom an...
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Mobs, Part 4
The murder of John the Baptist Even the great apostle Peter finds himself weak in the face of an aroused mob. The stoning of prophets by angry mobs is a recurring type in the Hebrew scripture. Being a...
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Mobs, Part 5
It is the mob that brings about the Crucifixion It was the mob that demanded Jesus’ death. Pilate, the Roman official, tried to keep order by giving them what they cried for: “Crucify him! Crucify...
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Mobs, Part 6 (final)
The mob is a parody of the Kingdom of Heaven Both Peter and Paul were caught up in the spirit of mobs early in their learning, but they learned through worship to discern the true spirit. This false...
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The dying of the light
Michael Federici is the author of one of the better books about the philosopher Eric Voeglin. In this brief article, he summarizes how historical experience engenders language that can illuminate the...
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Engaging the real questions might be fun
What are schools for? Nobody remembers.Schools tend to be shaped by how people, at least tacitly, answer three questions: who are we? what future are we moving toward? and what tools and resources can...
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Deep reading and the ACT Test
A culture that puts deep reading at its center fundamentally transforms human minds. One way of moving forward is to identify subcultures who are good at what you want to be better at and figure out...
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Things I learned at the 2020 FAIR Mormon Conference, Part 1
The FAIR Conference is an annual gathering of Latter-day Saint scholars. In 2019, I attended the FAIR Mormon Conference in Provo, Utah. I stayed at the Marriott and walked across the street to the...
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