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DEI is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Simple Explanation and Defense
DEI is falling on hard times. So, I thought I’d write an article that provides a simple explanation of its value. I’m using as inspiration the 2023 Academy Award nominated short doc The Only Girl in the Orchestra. The film tells the story of Orin O’Brien, a double bassist who joined the New York Philharmonic […]
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Disabuse: How to Prevent, Detect, Investigate, and Eliminate Abuse in Churches and Faith-Based Organizations:
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“ I would like to focus on the use of the word silly for a particular people’s point of views. Everybody has what is called a plausibility structure; we all have sets of background beliefs through which we process and assess evidence. When you call something silly, you are merely saying, ‘Relative to my plausibility structure that isn’t within that structure.’ That’s merely a comment on your own psychology, there’s nothing more to it so I don’t find that very helpful,” (Randal Rauser, Unbelieveable Feb. 1, 2014).”
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“the process of cultivating reading strategies begins with the way these stories are communicated in childhood. Personally, I have long wrestled with the ethics of children’s Bibles, and in particular the practice of changing narrative content to make it more palatable or age appropriate. The truth is that the Bible itself has more than enough content to warrant the highest adult rating: it is not a children’s book.”
― Jesus Loves Canaanites: Biblical Genocide in the Light of Moral Intuition
― Jesus Loves Canaanites: Biblical Genocide in the Light of Moral Intuition
“those heavily edited, child-friendly retellings of violent and otherwise morally problematic content raise further ethical problems. Can the bombing of Hiroshima or the liberation of Auschwitz meaningfully be edited for children”
― Jesus Loves Canaanites: Biblical Genocide in the Light of Moral Intuition
― Jesus Loves Canaanites: Biblical Genocide in the Light of Moral Intuition
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