A guilty man is immensely vulnerable, even impotent. The man who feels guilt has no stable ground to stand on when he is challenged; he is weak, crumpled up in the corner, like a tripod with one bum leg. Even
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Guilt Enables Manipulation (& Christ’s Answer)
A guilty man is immensely vulnerable, even impotent. The man who feels guilt has no stable ground to stand on when he is challenged; he is weak, crumpled up in the corner, like a tripod with one bum leg. Even when the assault comes against his blameless parts, such as they are, his awareness of…
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Burn It Down (Book Review)
Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want should be on the shelf of every political figure and public-sphere thinker in America. (Just, please, read it first, before putting it on the shelf.) Barris and Lisec provide precisely what the subtitle promises. They provide, too, a sharp-eyed, considered analysis of what those…
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Avalon’s Main Antagonist (Avalon Review III)
Of all the bits of Avalon, the failure of the ‘main’ antagonist is at once the most surprising in retrospect and the clearest. Surprising, because I can remember how dangerous Morgian seemed, how appropriately threatening and powerful; clear, because when I trace the bare facts of her work, precious few redeeming qualities appear in her.…