My First Byline: Wajahat Ali
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Write it down
From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard As each whisper came along, I began gaining confidence every time I made a detour, despite not understanding the destination. I became willing to divert from my life plan and follow a life path. It has become clear
Jesus and the Disinherited
From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Thurman was convinced that the church’s disregard for the prophetic message of Jesus remained most costly for disenfranchised people. It is not surprising that early Christians failed to promote the social justice aspects of Jesus’s teachings given the atmosphere
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patience in discernment
From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird God’s time is timeless. Kairos contains both past and future events in the present moment. Words like after and before, or first or last, belong to mortal life and chronology. God is all in all, the
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This is what the growth mindset gives people
From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD The fixed mindset limits achievement. It fills people’s minds with interfering thoughts, it makes effort disagreeable, and it leads to inferior learning strategies. What’s more, it makes other people into judges instead of allies. Whether we’re talking about Darwin or college students, important
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It’s time to discern the role of humans in an AI world
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from an idea to mass adoption
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Consider, as an alternate scenario, the story of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the online payment site PayPal, who decided in early 2005 the Web was ripe for an upgrade in the way it handled
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Christian
From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner SOME THINK OF A Christian as one who necessarily believes certain things. That Jesus was the son of God, say. Or that Mary was a virgin. Or that the Pope is infallible. Or that all other religions are all wrong. Some think