Why Free Speech Matters for Everyone
The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass once observed, “Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions cease to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.” Free speech has the power to reveal the truth,…
Are You Emotionally Intelligent?: Part 2
In my last post, I explained the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) and why college students do well to develop it. But from a worldview perspective, what assurances can Christ-followers have that EI is a biblical concept? Not much has been written on the integration of a Christian worldview and emotional intelligence theory, but perhaps…
Joy | Joy in Practice
You hear it in the silence of a bleak winter night. You see it in the eyes of a child waiting for their parents to say it’s time to come in the living room on Christmas morning. Anticipation – longing – joyful expectation of the coming of good. The extraordinary thing that is about to…