entitlement

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The entitlement trap

Dec 03, 2010 by Julie Clawson

I can't stand the word "entitlement." I use it sometimes, when people annoy me with their belief that the world owes them something or that their needs are more important than those of others. But when I do this, I'm guilty of the same thing they are: dismissing the importance of someone else's desires and asserting the importance of my own. I get caught in an entitlement trap.

Living by the Word

Sons of Entitlement

Mark 10:35-45

Oct 17, 2006 by Stephen B. Chapman

James and John McZebedee matriculated at my seminary again this fall. The “Sons of Entitlement,” I call them. They are usually—but not always—young and white in addition to being male. They have typically grown up in the church, attended Christian colleges and majored in religion. They like to refer to their mental index of Theologians Worth Reading and readily scoff at those theologians they have not read (and so are not worth reading).