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Assessing the Teams Behind Products and Technologies
Ben Werdmuller
These, then, are three distinct questions that the current debate over “free speech” runs together in a sloppy fashion:
* __Is the state engaging in acts of censorship?__
* __Are social sanctions against speech or beliefs too harsh?__
* __Is our media ecosystem sufficiently open?__
Failure to disentangle these questions has resulted in the current abysmal state of the conversation.
Censorship, Social Sanctions, and Access to Audiences
Adam Gurri
But here’s the weird thing. A lot of Christians are embarrassed by sin. We don’t want to talk about it. Especially when it comes to sex. You see this embarrassment a lot among Christians who are post-evangelical or post-fundamentalist, Christians who were raised in puritanical churches where sin, holiness, purity, piety, and personal morality were talked about all the time in ways that created loads of guilt, fear, and shame. I understand. Growing up in a conservative church I knew that being a “good person” meant avoiding drugs and sex. And coming out of pietistic churches like this we want to avoid talking about sin because talking about sin makes you sound like a judgmental and holier-than-thou Christian who’s obsessed with sex. The other hesitancy to talk about personal morality has to do with how we need to address systemic evils—social injustice and oppression. By focusing so much on this struggle we can come to wholly ignore the personal and moral aspects of the Christian walk. We talk a lot about justice, but we have almost nothing to say about holiness.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
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