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Learning what happiness is and isn t from my daughter with Down syndrome

Penny embodies the kind of love that holds onto hope amid suffering, redemption amid pain, and forgiveness amid hurt.

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Christ against trolling

The New Zealand shooter, meme culture, and alienation from meaning

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Do the best biblical scholars love Jesus

Some questions—as opposed to a categorical judgment—about Joel Green's post

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Thinking about the Paul Manafort sentence as a prison abolitionist

Patrick Beadle is serving 12 years after police found medical marijuana in his car. His incarceration doesn't make me feel safer, and neither does Manafort’s.

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If the U S sends this man back to the DRC today he will probably be killed

I would have thought we would welcome a pro-democracy activist.

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