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Jim Nichols: Trump and Heaven

By Jim Nichols My parents subscribed to Reader’s Digest when I was growing up. This small magazine has articles that do what the title says—they digest/summarize written items from a wide variety of sources. For some years there was even a book-sized version for purchase in which famous full books were reduced to more quickly readable sizes. Even as boy,

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Slow Reading

By Jim Nichols There are two sections to this article, with tension in both parts. The first is the tension of writing at all; the second is the tension I have regarding the topic. An author I admire notes that he receives criticism from two opposite directions. On one hand his writings tend to be slanted toward religious, even Christian,

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Homesick

By Jim Nichols I can remember the specific place on the street where the encounter occurred. During my third semester of college, hundreds of miles from where I grew up, I was with a classmate in the evening. He said, “Do you want to go get a Coke?” I replied, “I would like to, but I need to go home

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From Unthinkable to Policy

By Jim Nichols Consider with me the following list of categories: UnthinkableRadicalAcceptableSensiblePopularPolicyPopularSensibleAcceptableRadicalUnthinkable In the 1990s Joseph Overton developed the concept of the “Window of Political Possibilities.” This has been an influential concept in public policy, and it has enough logic that we can spin it into church policy and, in fact, personal behavior policy as followers of God. As you

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