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Reading Is Not Enough To Make You Wise
Reading changed my life. I cannot imagine my life today without the influence of the things I’ve read. Books introduced me to ideas I would never have encountered otherwise. They gave me language for thoughts I couldn’t articulate and forced me to examine parts of life I had ignored. Some
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The Report
Please note that I am writing this without permission, not to flatter anyone, but to clarify the facts. Long before many Nigerian believers found words for it, many people were already tired of a Christianity rooted in fear: village rituals, quarterly deliverance, seed offerings for anointing, “spiritual covering,” and prayer
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Discovering Shame
I can’t have been more than four or five years old when I cut the webbing between my sister’s thumb and index finger with a pair of scissors. I honestly don’t remember why I did it. Maybe curiosity. Maybe carelessness. At that age, you don’t always understand the difference between
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Tall Poppy Syndrome
The metaphor is simple. When one poppy grows taller than the rest of the field, there is an impulse to cut it back down to size. In human terms, the tall poppy is the high achiever: the successful entrepreneur, the star athlete, the celebrity, the bestselling author, or anyone else
