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If you can’t make a good prediction, it is very often harmful to pretend that you can. I suspect that epidemiologists, and others in the medical community, understand this because of their adherence to the Hippocratic oath. Primum non nocere: First, do no harm.

The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver

Providing for poor believers was a central emphasis of the Christian communities.

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

Alan Kreider

Despite the conviction that our era is revolutionary, we must also recognize that under the appearance of movement and development we are in fact living in complete stasis. There is undoubtedly much chaos and violence, there is technical progress, there are social and political experiments. But in reality our world is static, because its structures remain absolutely fixed and its development unfolds along a completely expected rather than revolutionary path.

Presence in the Modern World

Jacques Ellul, Ted Lewis, and Lisa Richmond

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