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Conservative Christian trying to find a better path forward.
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The Growth Ponzi Scheme:
A city builds new infrastructure. That development brings in some quick revenue.
But the long-term cost of maintaining all that infrastructure is far greater than the revenue it generates. So when the bills come due, the city doesn’t have any money.
A city builds new infrastructure. That development brings in some quick revenue.
But the long-term cost of maintaining all that infrastructure is far greater than the revenue it generates. So when the bills come due, the city doesn’t have any money.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Growth Ponzi Scheme:
A city builds new infrastructure. That development brings in some quick revenue.
But the long-term cost of maintaining all that infrastructure is far greater than the revenue it generates. So when the bills come due, the city doesn’t have any money.
A city builds new infrastructure. That development brings in some quick revenue.
But the long-term cost of maintaining all that infrastructure is far greater than the revenue it generates. So when the bills come due, the city doesn’t have any money.
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Good Friday Reversals in the Bible.
April 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Good Friday Reversals in the Bible.
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Their stance is clear: allowing city-wide by-right incremental development will produce the least resistance and the most expansion of housing options. Keeping single-family zoning untouched only tightens the squeeze on affordability and fuels car dependency.
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Their stance is clear: allowing city-wide by-right incremental development will produce the least resistance and the most expansion of housing options. Keeping single-family zoning untouched only tightens the squeeze on affordability and fuels car dependency.
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How do you transform European hearts?
Evangelicals across the continent are experimenting with an old idea: Spiritual formation.
Evangelicals across the continent are experimenting with an old idea: Spiritual formation.
An Old Idea Is New Again in Europe: Spiritual Formation - Christianity Today
Evangelicals across the continent are experimenting with discipleship.
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April 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
How do you transform European hearts?
Evangelicals across the continent are experimenting with an old idea: Spiritual formation.
Evangelicals across the continent are experimenting with an old idea: Spiritual formation.
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“It's more likely, when you have a highway expansion like this, that you're bringing in Walmarts, that you're bringing in strip malls that are actually destructive to the local small businesses in the area.”
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“It's more likely, when you have a highway expansion like this, that you're bringing in Walmarts, that you're bringing in strip malls that are actually destructive to the local small businesses in the area.”
Conservatives need a new way forward. We cannot continue in the way of Trumpism.
March 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Conservatives need a new way forward. We cannot continue in the way of Trumpism.
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The Church might be the only community of people that establishes its credibility in the world by routinely and fearlessly confessing and repenting of sin.
And we lose our credibility by refusing to name our sins.
And we lose our credibility by refusing to name our sins.
March 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Church might be the only community of people that establishes its credibility in the world by routinely and fearlessly confessing and repenting of sin.
And we lose our credibility by refusing to name our sins.
And we lose our credibility by refusing to name our sins.
The way we do it is to recognize that two things can be true at once. That the way we do things is broken and needs to fix, needs to be fixed, needs change, needs reform. And that people with courage, people with vision, people with empathy can roll up their sleeves and do that.” - Chuck Marohn
March 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The way we do it is to recognize that two things can be true at once. That the way we do things is broken and needs to fix, needs to be fixed, needs change, needs reform. And that people with courage, people with vision, people with empathy can roll up their sleeves and do that.” - Chuck Marohn
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““The way we deal with this is to not join one of these big top-down teams.“
““The way we deal with this is to not join one of these big top-down teams.“
It Won’t Be Us: Thoughts on Our Current Craziness From a Strong Towns Perspective
Podcast Episode · The Strong Towns Podcast · 03/11/2025 · 1h
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March 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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““The way we deal with this is to not join one of these big top-down teams.“
““The way we deal with this is to not join one of these big top-down teams.“