Tag: faith
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Empathy for a Chance at Redemption
I had once heard that since it is easy to have empathy for people we like, the point of empathy is to have it for people we don’t. Though I agree with this and it was recently prominent in my mind, I now realize that the point of empathy is also to foster redemption. Following…
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Portrait of a Man
“Who am I, Gamling?” King Théoden asks of his lieutenant in a calm-before-the-storm moment of hopelessness and self-doubt. I like to consider my identity as that of a Renaissance Man of the People. This may be considered a compound epithet merging, of course, the phrases Renaissance Man and Man of the People. A Renaissance Man…