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Without Meritocracy… Many years ago I was on a cruise around Italy.  One of the ports was Kotor, Montenegro.  Situated at the bottom of a pass between mountains, in the morning as the sun heats the air, the wind comes whipping down the pass and tries, very hard, to push any ship tied up at the docks back to sea.  Our ship was trying to tie up in these very difficult circumstances.  The ship was equipped with directional thrusters so it could dock without tugs, but it was a balancing act.  The Captain had to sidle the ship into the dock with enough thrust to overcome the gusty and strong wind, but not so much as to crush the dock.  It was a real struggle that morning and at one point a line was... Read More

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The Real Challenge On Friday I wrote of our need for a challenge, for transcendence.  I mentioned that when we seek such we tend to look in all the wrong places. On this Palm Sunday I cannot help but reflect on how that parallels the story of Holy Week,  Today we celebrate Jesus’ welcome to Jerusalem as a conquering hero.  But everybody was looking to Jesus in the wrong way.  He was there to conquer and fix the world, but it was not by overthrowing Rome or any other externality.  He was there to make the world better by making each of us, individually, better.  He was there to both model genuine sacrifice for us and on a theological level to make us capable of being... Read More

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The Need For…Something Kurt Schlicter earlier this week: The masks, the paranoia, the constant talk about vaccines – some people love this stuff. This is their Woodstock. And they never want it to end…. People crave a challenge, …. People need to be tested. They crave meaning. I merely oversaw a heavily-armed carwash during the Gulf War, but even then, being in a war zone as history happened around us, we all had this feeling of being alive unlike anything else we had ever experienced. I did not get it back until I was driving around riot-torn Los Angeles with an M16 rifle... Read More

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