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Jeremy Mann

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Social Justice Reconsidered: Report from the Philadelphia Society

Social justice was recently reconsidered by the Philadelphia Society. Here are a few lessons from their meeting.

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Affirmative Action: Too Little, Too Much, and on the Wrong Track

Affirmative action seeks to help the poor and the marginalized, and as Christians, we should be doing the same.

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Athanasius Trash-Talking the Greek Philosophers

Athanasius takes a swipe at the limited popular influence of the Greek philosophers: As to Greek wisdom, however, and the philosophers’ noisy talk, I really think no one requires argument from us; for the amazing fact is patent to all that, […]

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"He Desires a Noble Task" The Erosion of the Evangelical Pastorate

The evangelical church has a problem. Without more intentional development of bright young Christians, we are going to run out of pastors.

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Advice for Undergraduates Planning on Seminary

Thinking about attending Seminary after your Undergraduate education? This is some advice I'd wished I'd received during my college days.

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Matt and Lauren's Wedding Sermon

My wife's wonderful sister married a great guy this weekend; they asked me to give the homily at the wedding. I was stunned by the invitation, but also

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On the Height of the Buildings in Heaven

Ever wonder about the buildings in heaven? And the block sizes? Two articles sparked similar thinking the other day. The first is in the most recent Atlantic, from Harvard economist

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Live Blogging TFA 20: Welcome Session

I’m writing this from the opening ceremonies of Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit in Washington D.C. More than 11,000 alumni, corps members, staff, partners, and

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TFA 20: What Christians can remind public educators

If you were a baker, and the flour was brought to you full of maggots and worms, you could not be expected to produce good bread.” This statement was made in the Colorado House of Representatives by Max Tyler (D-Lakewood), […]

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TFA 20: Gladwell, Steinam, and Lewis

My first breakout session had Malcolm Gladwell facilitating a discussion between civil rights advocate and US Representative John Lewis, feminist Gloria Steinam, and a director of La Raza (didn’t catch the name, seemed like a big deal). I have fundamental […]

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Review of "One Day, All Children..."

Over the last twenty years, Teach For America has led 21,000 of the nation’s brightest young people into public education in low-income communities, where roughly 60% of them have stayed. Less than half of traditionally-trained teachers stay more than two […]

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McKinsey Report on US Teacher Quality

Today I received on my desk an advanced copy of Wendy Kopp’s new book. In addition to being one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2008, Kopp