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I find that the hardest work in the world… is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it’s also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you’re trying to work on something and it’s not going anywhere, you can go to school and there’s a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

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I don’t claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

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May 14, 2024

I don’t claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

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May 14, 2024

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it’s also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you’re trying to work on something and it’s not going anywhere, you can go to school and there’s a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

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