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The researchers’ interpretation of their results is that it isn’t willpower (as conventionally understood) that distinguishes the successful children, it is the ability to strategically allocate their attention so that their actions aren’t determined by the wrong thoughts.
The World Beyond Your Head
Matthew B. Crawford
Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
In parable after parable, Jesus speaks of the “reigning of God” using images drawn from farming and women’s work, not warfare and kings’ palaces. It is not described as coming from on high down to earth; it rises quietly and imperceptibly put of the land. It is established, not by armies and military might, but by an ineluctable process of growth from below, among the common people.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
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