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A wake up call What you need and what you prefer are often not the same thing. That’s not a problem. And you know that already, anyway. The problem is when we confuse the two. You need to study, or work. You would prefer to eat, or sleep. In
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Here’s everything I wrote in January 2017 Day 1: Some Time (Or, A word-gift for New Year’s Day 2017) Day 2: It’s OK to insist that faith make sense (Or, Why St Thomas is my kind of guy). I published two posts on the 2nd, by the
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Learnings from 18,074 words in 31 days My friend, the talented (and now prolific) Orisirisi, set out in 2016 to achieve (what was, to me at least) a feat—and achieved it, and inspired by her example, I decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for years…
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Thoughts on 21st-century human behaviour Today I heard about two girls in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, who went out yesterday and haven’t been heard from since. Earlier in the week, I read this BBC article from last year on child abduction in the UK. Carried out by teenagers,
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But it can be fixed. Here’s how. I’m tired. Tired of waking up to news reports that include terms like this… Just in case you have any trouble with the images, worry not, as I intend to break them down further anyway. Pulse.ng informed us of… “A
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(And the one thing that does matter.) I’m a big fan of electronic reading and I don’t get those who insist that paper is better. Okay, I actually kind of get them, but still. It’s hard for me not to think of my friends who insist on
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The problem with the way our leaders talk, and what it says about how they—and we—think I recently passed Ikorodu Road and realised the under-bridge traffic of road-crossers was gone, because a wire fence now divides the road. I thought it was simply brilliant. No more of the
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I owe my life to Professor Clive Staples Lewis. I do not say this lightly. He truly changed, and in changing saved, my life. And, in commemoration of his death, I offer up this tribute of sorts.