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Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

“Perfume from a Dress”: How Poetry Persuades

Great poetry moves us because we remember it.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Reading Others, Reading Ourselves

We read memoirs so we can view both self and others with a more tender and convicting eye.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

The Pros of Christian Organizations

Christian organizing isn’t about frenetic imperialism—it’s a passion to bring Christ’s easy yoke to all facets of society, freeing us from captivities.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

The Devil’s Advocate: Perfection Waits for Another World

Political obedience in our broken societies is not painted in black and white.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Pilgrimage and Paradigm Shifts

In “Great Tradition” Christianity we find friends in the faith who we thought were opponents.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

The (Not So Hidden) Persuaders

As I creatively market a brand through storytelling, I believe that truth wins and beauty uplifts the human spirit.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

An Undersung Art

We need wordsmiths willing to speak with care and courage into a public forum where language is so often hijacked, held hostage, abused.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Protest and Persuasion: Productive or Pointless?

A public protest can be an effective means of enacting positive change, but only if it is done right.

Mar 1, 2013 Essay Persuasion

Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian’s Privilege

Persuasion should be based in discovering the reality of real people’s lives.

Feb 1, 2013 Essay

Prizes and Consumables: The Super Bowl as a Theology of Women

The way we consume iconic national events like the Super Bowl better depicts what we really believe about women than does anything else. For in the invisibility of normality, there we find our idolatry.

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“Perfume from a Dress”: How Poetry Persuades

Reading Others, Reading Ourselves

The Pros of Christian Organizations

The Devil’s Advocate: Perfection Waits for Another World

Pilgrimage and Paradigm Shifts

The (Not So Hidden) Persuaders

An Undersung Art

Protest and Persuasion: Productive or Pointless?

Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian’s Privilege

Prizes and Consumables: The Super Bowl as a Theology of Women

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