JOHN A. TEEVAN

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

JOHN A. TEEVAN

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

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Trust Builds a Bridge (Part 1)

A truck passes within 20 inches on US 30 and nothing happens, because of trust....
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Political Ideologies Have Become Religions

A 1968 convention usher and Keynesian economics major traces how political ideologies took on the...
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Buried Incredibly Deep in a Night We Never Desired

From pandemic fear to the invasion of Ukraine, wave after wave of crisis has left...
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A Myopic and Blinkered View of Reality

The age of the universe has changed wildly since 1800. A look at how confident...
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Where Is God? Closer Than We Think

Advice to seminary and ministry graduates leaving the warm nest of a college community for...
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What Just Happens?

We quietly sort events into what just happens and what someone caused. Examining the invisible...
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This Is How They Made the Pleasant Land Desolate

A commentator who avoids partisan positions examines how a pleasant land was made desolate, and...
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Resentment and Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving arrives amid Covid fear, economic distress and social disruption. On the discipline of gratitude...