Tag Archives: American exceptionalism

Degrading our ‘City Upon a Hill’

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Bennett Minton

The phrase “American Exceptionalism” always irritated me, as it was about waving the flag while ignoring a history that, checkered like most countries, began with slavery, our original sin, and continued with Manifest Destiny, the doctrinal foundation for a genocide. … Continue reading →

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Belief as limitation, on campus and off

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Bennett Minton

When I am not thinking about the next blog, I staff workshops that support people in discovering that all of their experience is narrowed by their beliefs. The simplest example of this phenomena is that a little while ago, we … Continue reading →

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