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Cate MacDonald

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The Quick and the Dead

Questioning is a form of desire. Jonathan Mueller of The Academy at Houston Baptist University explains.

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The Surprising Similarities Between First Dates and Bad Textbooks

Bad dates and textbooks have a lot in common, namely, bad questions. David Gilbert of The Academy at Houston Baptist University explains.

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On Kids and Questions

Kids and questions go together. Cate MacDonald reflects on the questioning life in light of her work with high schoolers.

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What Christmas Bells Might Mean

Christmas is meant as a remembrance of the most shockingly concrete experience the world ever had that God was not dead, and he had not forgotten us.

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Of Women and the Freedom to be Holy

Christianity in the 18th and 19th century was good for women, or at least Mary Shelley thought so.

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On Teaching Lambs

I love teaching, or so I thought. Turns out, what I have loved is watching people learn. Teaching is another thing altogether, a thing fraught with peril.

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Charmlessness unto Godliness

It is tempting to use charm to manipulate people into liking me. God gives us freedom, so should we, even to our enemies.

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I Went to Wheatstone. You Should Too.

Wheatstone Academy provides a week of Socratic pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful. You should attend.

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On Leaving Home: Vocation, Eternity, and Texas

What prompts us to leave home? In light of eternity, only a sense of vocation and calling and work will prompt us to move.

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To Go Where Two Men Have Gone Before

A few months ago I got a call that, quite unexpectedly, changed everything for me. It was from John Mark Reynolds, a name familiar to most of you here, founder

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One Thing

Sitting in class with Dr. Coe was always different. Different from other teachers, different from the same class last week, different from anything we’d done before. And yet there’

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Made in the USA

A few weeks ago I watched this testimony given by Mike Rowe in front of the Senate. I’ve been thinking about it ever since. If you haven’t already