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The Paradox of Grief and Hope
paradoxes "offer two invitations: curiosity and humility.”
Scot Bellavia
Jun 27, 20243 min read
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From Heels to Feels: How to Persuade the Lived Experience
The lived experience is more than I-feel-this-therefore-it’s-true, but it can be hard to persuade otherwise.
Scot Bellavia
Feb 9, 20244 min read
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Preston Sprinkle Responds to Claims of Heresy
Anymore, ‘heretic’ is bandied about like the word ‘toxic,” serving the same purpose: a call to cancel the problematic subject.
Scot Bellavia
Dec 4, 20233 min read
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Updating Sin: Pop Psychologists Take a Stab at the Seven Deadly Sins
Sin struggles are not character flaws that can be life-hacked away.
Scot Bellavia
Jul 8, 20235 min read
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Christian Radio is for Spiritual Infants
Someone is aimlessly scanning their car radio when it halts on a national Christian radio station. What kind of gospel will they hear?
Scot Bellavia
Feb 2, 20239 min read
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Elle King Wants to Try Jesus
Can anyone actually Try Jesus?
Scot Bellavia
Nov 2, 20223 min read
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On Death.
Recovery...sounds like a scientific euphemism for "get over." Because, I think, if we’re honest, there is no end date for grief.
Scot Bellavia
Jan 18, 20225 min read
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Is the 4-Day Workweek an Excuse for Laziness?
The COVID-19 pandemic resurged the cry for another alleged productivity booster: working less.
Scot Bellavia
Oct 26, 20215 min read
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'Untamed' is Truly Wild
I was more than halfway through when I realized the book was not what I thought it would be...nor what I wanted it to be.
Scot Bellavia
Sep 30, 20215 min read
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The Gospel According to Michael Gungor
Michael Gungor, of Beautiful Things fame, is creating a new religion in his likeness, but he won’t admit it.
Scot Bellavia
Jul 17, 202110 min read
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So You're About to Get Canceled
Whether you’re a professor or a performer, you’ve just found yourself next on the chopping block of cancel culture.
Scot Bellavia
May 10, 20212 min read
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White Fragility Book Review
Robin DiAngelo’s cult classic, White Fragility, is a work of its time. That’s why her arguments are unconvincing.
Scot Bellavia
Mar 31, 20214 min read
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Ravi and Milo: How Should Christians React to Unsettling News?
it can be difficult to tell whether the alleged “conversion” is genuine.
Scot Bellavia
Mar 12, 20215 min read
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I Was a Mover for President Trump*
I heard my co-workers say that we’d be moving a family of three out of a white house in Pennsylvania to Florida.
Scot Bellavia
Jan 20, 20216 min read
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Was SNL Ever Funny?
Its humor resides in the taboo.
Scot Bellavia
Dec 30, 20203 min read
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Self-Identifying as an Anti-Semantic
To entangle ourselves in arguments over semantics is to forget that no one needs to talk, act, or dress a certain way to approach God.
Scot Bellavia
Dec 19, 20203 min read
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Mission Work in Language Arts
Pronouns are evolving, and words are newly being created. It is during our moment in time to decide what to do with that.
Scot Bellavia
Dec 18, 20204 min read
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The Man Behind the Blue Curtain
You’ve probably never heard of Saul Arrogo, but, like the wind, you’ve seen what he can do.
Scot Bellavia
Dec 7, 20209 min read
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Come As You Are to Corfu
The plot centers around the family’s assimilation with the Greeks; the humor rests in their inability to do so.
Scot Bellavia
Dec 7, 20204 min read
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The Case for Kanye
I wouldn't want Kanye West to be president but I'll follow him into the world he's engineering.
Scot Bellavia
Nov 30, 20206 min read
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