JOHN A. TEEVAN

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

JOHN A. TEEVAN

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

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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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David Brooks Watched the Merit Elite Circle the Wagons

David Brooks coined 'Bobos' in 2000. Now he watches the merit elite he described close...
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Western Missions: A Letter from the Files

A 2014 memo to the third wave of Western missionaries: please quit imposing your values...
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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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Where Have All The “Nones” Gone?

The religiously unaffiliated are rising fast, and not only among young adults leaving church. Where...
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I Was Wrong: The False Dawning of a New Age

A college student in the postwar boom believed a new age had dawned. Decades later,...
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Bias and Anti-Racism: Principles, Process, List

Notes from a Princeton alumni panel on race, plus a working list of principles and...
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A Grave Injustice

Why complete confidence in the systemic racism narrative requires ignoring inconvenient facts, and what careful...
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What to Fix and Who Is Getting Played?

Are we trying to fix man or society? If race is the thing most needing...
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Our Great Purpose: Ryan Hanley on Adam Smith

Adam Smith wrote about virtue before he wrote about markets. Ryan Hanley draws lessons from...