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The Head & the Heart
Vol. 33, No. 2 • Mar/Apr 2024
Imagine you’re asking two friends for counsel in making a difficult decision. “Now, carefully think this through,” one friend cautions with a wagging finger, while the other jabs you in the ribs and winks. “Nah, just go with your gut!” This scene reflects an all-too-common false choice between considering humans as […]
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Imagine you’re asking two friends for counsel in making a difficult decision. “Now, carefully think this through,” one friend cautions with a wagging finger, while the other jabs you in the ribs and winks. “Nah, just go with your gut!” This scene reflects an all-too-common false choice between considering humans as […]
Heady Thoughts About Your Heart
Life is filled with choices. Some are as mundane as paper or plastic, while others are more serious, like the friend who insists, “You’re either with me or against me.” We are told that we must choose between success or happiness, hard work or a social life, science or art, being an extrovert or an introvert. It’s this or that. […]
Shipments and Mis-shipments from the Dutch Golden Age
Ships that fail to reach their destination cause trouble. For six days in March 2021, the container ship *Ever Given*—more “sideways skyscraper than boat”—got stuck in the Suez Canal, scotched the global movement of goods, and froze nearly $10 billion in trade daily. We know this lesson well […]
The Road of Roses
Where the trail, young traveler, divides, Thy fate, unlike thyself, Has long already taken sides, And waits but for thyself. […]
Orthodox and Pious: Johann Gerhard’s Marriage of Doctrine and Devotion
What is a Pietist? I’ve been searching for a good answer to this question since my graduate student days when I was studying this remarkable seventeenth-century movement and its subsequent influence. One common perception I found is that a Pietist is simply a Lutheran version of a Puritan. But then, what is a Puritan? […]
Clouds of Dirt
Dirt kicked up with folly, laughter, and play; ignorance was bliss as we played board games. “He’s gone,” we overheard our mother say. There was no response as we called his name. […]
Vol. 33, No. 2 • Mar/Apr 2024
The Head & the Heart
Imagine you’re asking two friends for counsel in making a difficult decision. “Now, carefully think this through,” one friend cautions with a wagging finger, while the other jabs you in the ribs and winks. “Nah, just go with your gut!” This scene reflects an all-too-common false choice between considering humans as […]
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