We’ve entered a new era of sycophancy. Because we now live in a world of AI companions, many of us are familiar with the insufferable flattery that these machines bestow upon us. It’s pleasantry and passiveness at all costs. And it just makes good business sense. The major AI companies need us to be on
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The reading of Ephesians 5 in church, the part about husbands and wives, always amuses me. Some of the women in the congregation stiffen or frown when they hear: “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the church … so
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Respected Tennessee teacher Samira Hardcastle resigned after being pressured not to flunk a student who didn’t complete a homework assignment. The student’s parents complained to school administration after she refused to change the student’s grade, and school staff ordered the grade changed. When Hardcastle refused to comply, school administration changed the grade themselves. For schools like
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There’s an old story about a psychologist inching his way up a battered, gray-and-white speckled mountain. He scrapes and scrabbles his way up the cliff faces and ice walls, a breathless ascent, thinking all the time that he’ll enjoy in solitude an indescribable view with the knowledge of being the first person to ever scale
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Why does God need my worship? The first response to this question, if one is really talking about God, should be “God doesn’t!” But why doesn’t He? A common objection to “going to church” is that an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God should not need anyone to get together and sing songs about him. It’s true
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I can still see my manager standing, frozen in shock, by the locker of our retail store’s breakroom. I was seated on one of the room’s foldout tables, and it had just come out that I, as a working teenager, did not own a phone. I belong to Gen Z, so my manager’s shock didn’t
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