“Suspicion is a default of the Western academy, where many theological schools are embedded. The cost of privileging this vinegary approach to reading a text or a situation is high. To change the world, we need an ‘I have a dream’ speech, not an ‘I have a complaint’ speech.”
Bryan Johnson could take a complex news story and tell it succinctly and understandably. I knew him as an honorable, compassionate boss, churchgoer, and friend.
A range of cases facing the high court this term will potentially expand America’s move toward authoritarian boss-man givernment, on the model of Hungary or Turkey.
Open offices flatten difference. They force everyone into the same overstimulated mold. And they kill the two things modern work depends on: focus and psychological safety.
