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What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World

By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Sign It Into Law: How to Put Your Petition on the Ballot

I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

The Sea Change

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

A Summer to Die

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Go into relationships with a positive expectation and looking for God's glory in others.

Straight Talk to Christian Singles: Moving from Hi, How Are You? to Yes, I Do

I went for the door and opened it, not wanting to see how much this corpse was willing to destroy to get into my bedroom. His body probably would’ve crumbled to pieces before he got in, and I had no clue how to get dead guy out of the carpet.

Stalked by Death

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

The Sky is Everywhere

No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?" "Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation." "Poor lambs." "That's not how I'd describe them." "I was thinking of animal sacrifice." "Ah. That's closer.

Shards of Honour

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

Shutter Island

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form