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Civility

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Thank You, Mr. Rogers.
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Thank You, Mr. Rogers.

I've been feeling a lot of gratitude for Fred Rogers recently. Maybe it's because I've made it a new "life rule" to withdraw from online interaction that is characterized by contentiousness and dialogue-dominating personalities. I recently said farewell to an online community
07 Jun 2012 2 min read
About Looking Closer

God Bless Gracious Commenters

Friends and colleagues who leave comments here, consider this a little love note, prompted by things I've seen happening on several other sites today. Conversing on an online discussion board is a tricky art.Everybody knows that it's difficult to know how their words are going
25 Jul 2010 3 min read
Civility

Save Me From Divisive Speech

You read the darnedest things in Facebook status updates. Here's a gem I stumbled across today. James W. Rosenzweig: We pretend too comfortably that the people we disagree with politically are evil, that they have evil intentions, that their motives can arise only from the most bitter and
20 Feb 2010
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