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What about the idea that you must love yourself before you can love others? Jean Twenge, in her new book, Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before, takes on this question. Studies show that this is easy to get backwards. Barbara Walters to Hugh Downs: “Oh,…

David Naugle’s second chapter in his fine new book, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness, is about Augustine. Augustine lists the three causes of unhappiness and the one cause of genuine happiness. What do you think of his breakdown? How about a concrete instance of each one? Here they are: 1.…

Before we answer this, I’m wondering if you are hearing things like this. Any response? Scot, This is unbelievably forward of me.   I am a reader of your blog.  I have a question about New Testament history, perhaps you can point me to a resource or might want to write about it on your…

James sees the testing of faith — the ability to see through a bad situation to what God will make of it — as an opportunity to set off a chain reaction: 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops…
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