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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Wear |Michael Reneau |Theodore Goldstein |Hannah Anderson
I have been thinking a lot about agency lately. Politics in America over the last decade has felt designed, scripted even, to rob people of their own sense of agency. I think many people feel as if our politics is happening to them—affecting their livelihood, their relationships, their neighborhoods—and is beyond their reach or influence. But agency is not only essential for a healthy democracy, agency is an essential aspect of what it means to be human.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Nadya Williams |Michael Wear |Mustafa Akyol
Hi and happy Sunday. This week marked the beginning of Lent, the 40-day season leading into Easter. While many Catholics and Orthodox Christians observe formal fasts during this season, in recent years Christians of various traditions have begun observing fasts of one sort or another.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Daniel N. Gullotta |Alastair Roberts |Michael Reneau |Michael Wear
The Bible seems to be having a moment. Book sales data reveal a across the United States last year, driven largely by first-time buyers. The market is also seeing innovation from new publishers and translations, including the viral Bibliotheca, which omits chapter and verse numbers for enhanced readability, and fresh translations by renowned scholars like N.T. Wright and David Bentley Hart.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Michael Wear |Mustafa Akyol |Dan Hugger
By and Published March 2, 2025 Hi and happy Sunday. Call it a vibe shift, a resetting, a realignment, a big sort, or something else. Whatever moniker you choose, there’s really no denying the U.S. is undergoing tectonic shifts in politics. On the surface, that shift may not seem as pronounced for Americans of faith—particularly Christians, who, according to some brand new Pew Research findings, still closely align with the Republican Party.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Michael Wear |Todd Hunter |Kyle Bennett |Kaitlyn Schiess
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Michael Wear
Come November, most voters will choose between two presidential candidates, neither of whom are fit for office, as I have previously argued. Iโm not just arguing that they are sinners and therefore โevilโ in the sense that everyone is fallen; Iโm arguing that they are specifically unjust and immoral and unfit for positions of national leadership.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Michael Wear
Come November, most voters will choose between two presidential candidates, neither of whom are fit for office, as I have previously argued. Iโm not just arguing that they are sinners and therefore โevilโ in the sense that everyone is fallen; Iโm arguing that they are specifically unjust and immoral and unfit for positions of national leadership.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Michael Wear
Come November, most voters will choose between two presidential candidates, neither of whom are fit for office, as I have previously argued. Iโm not just arguing that they are sinners and therefore โevilโ in the sense that everyone is fallen; Iโm arguing that they are specifically unjust and immoral and unfit for positions of national leadership.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Michael Wear |Jeffery Tyler Syck |Tyler Syck |Richard Samuelson
It is evident to anyone watching the news that our political climate is consumed with fractious, hyper-polarized, gamesmanship. To put it simply, our government resembles less and less the orderly debating society envisioned by the Constitution, and more and more some sort of blood sport—everybody has a team, they cannot fathom the other team having any redeeming qualities, and all the onlookers are howling for the slaughter to start.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Michael Wear
We are heading into another contentious Presidential election. For people of faith, for people who care about character and gentleness and values, for people who are inclined to disengage from politics altogether, what are we to do?
