Race
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Economist, Yanis Varoufakis in his book, Technofeudalism argues that cloud-technology-owning companies from the United States and China are organizing everyone on the planet including governments, traditional capitalists and the rest of humanity into a class that pays them what he calls, cloud rents. These companies, cloudalists, as Varoufakis refers to them, operate outside profit motives,…
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Somethings are better left unsaid. If there’s any advice I would give my younger self, it would be this one. Holding your tongue is almost always a super skill to cultivate, particularly because you can’t take back your words after you have spoken them out.
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The concept of the Lordship of Jesus espoused in the Bible is this. You have been bought with a price that has no compare. You are no longer yours and because you are not yours, your health, wealth and wellbeing are the responsibility of another who is not only faithful but just. His name is…
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Your paradigm always matters because it is what influences your results. I have been thinking about the relevance of the gospel of Christ in a world so intelligent and prosperous that it sees no value in Christian messaging, and it is this one thing. The gospel of Jesus Christ will change your paradigm and ultimately…
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There is divergence between humanism and Christianity, however, people have tried over a millennium to marry both. Humanism centres the human as the essence of everything, Christianity centres Christ. Christian humanism, however, attempts to subsume Christ into a human container, and fails woefully. In its practice, Christ is the means and not the end.
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As I get older, I realize that it’s easier to be a bombast… The difficulties that inhere in truly living are instantiated in the exercise of power. To exercise power requires the delicate balance of thinking and bending reality to fit one’s thoughts. Power is not showy. In fact, real power operates in the shadows.…
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If you died today, I give it a few days, weeks or months, at the most, and everyone in your life, right now, would have moved on. The reason many may not like or agree with the assertion above is that they overrate their importance . The only one that knows your true value is…
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There is a sudden upsurge in intimate partner violence in many parts of the world and we, the Church of Jesus, are allowing it to fester. This violence, usually precipitated by marital conflict, has now left many dead or maimed in its wake, particularly in parts of North America and around the world. What is…
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Generosity is the mother of ingratitude. While generosity is encouraged, it can eventually harm the giver, and often spoil its receiver. How? Why? When? Apparently, once generosity stops being a good servant, it’s metamorphosis into a terrible monster becomes inevitable.
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Tony Robbins rightly said that at the core of everyone is an artist, a manager or an entrepreneur. You do one of these three roles so well that it is your default when things get tough. Do you like to create things? Is managing a process more important to you? Or are you about starting,…