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Entries Tagged ‘self esteem’

Loving the unlovables

We’ve long thought that popular culture confuses love for infatuation, lust and a feeling. Another strange thought about love is the implication of some kind of attribute that denotes lovable-ness when people talk about “loving the unlovables”. We see all of this both in song lyrics, “love is a feeling”, and though I can’t recall [...]

Feeling Down?

2008 Note: I wrote this in 2002, probably one of the first Christian articles I had ever written.  It came to me when I was reading a friend’s Dietrich Bonhoeffer message-a-day book so I hope that I haven’t passed off any of his work as my own below!  Not sure I would go along with [...]