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Opinion | the Southern Baptist Moral Meltdown
- Relationships do not scale. They have to be built one at a time, through patience and forbearance. But norms do scale. When people in a community cultivate caring relationships, and do so repeatedly in a way that gets communicated to others, then norms are established. Trustworthy action is admired; empathy is celebrated. Cruelty is punished and os
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
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The Church Needs Prophets, but It Wants Lawyers
frenchpress.thedispatch.comfrenchpress.thedispatch.comThe Germans (of course) have a word for it: herzensbildung, training one’s heart to see the full humanity in another.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
For Murdoch, the essential immoral act is the inability to see other people correctly. Human beings, she finds, are self-centered beings, anxiety-ridden and resentful. We are constantly representing people to ourselves in self-serving ways, in ways that gratify our egos and serve our ends. We stereotype and condescend, ignore and dehumanize. And be
... See moreShe argues that morality is not mostly about abstract universal principles, or even about making big moral decisions during climactic moments: Do I report fraud when I see it at work? Morality is mostly about how you pay attention to others. Moral behavior happens continuously throughout the day, even during the seemingly uneventful and everyday mo
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