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This year is the 25th anniversary of Dallas Willard's excellent work, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God. It was Christianity Today's "book of the year" when released. Given the author and the acclaim received the book, it was...

Often, people settle for pursuing good outcomes (well, at least if simplistic analysis holds)-- and thus, the means of govt force are sufficient to justify the ends.
For example...
-Is it moral/ethical/biblical to take money from a household earning $80K per year-- or undemocratically, from future households earning $80K per year-- to pay off the loans of other people for college?...

Trip Lee did a really nice job with ask/seek/knock (from Mt 7) and what generosity looks like from a good/great God. His discussion on Jesus' analogy of God as parent was most helpful to me-- that God often gives us what's best for us (and others), instead...

"Gerrymandering" is always a potential topic with our electoral system, but sometimes it moves to the front burner of the proverbial stove. We're in one of those moments now-- as the Texas GOP stirred the pot last month with its work to "redistrict"...