“Group weirdness”
In any group, most people are pretty conventional. They fit in the 80 per cent of the standard bell curve. PICTURE: Toa Heftiba/Unsplash Then you have the artisans, the alternatives, the out-of-the-box thinkers. Groups need these unconventional people to ensure we don’t succumb to group-think. This is a profound design of God. We need people […]
Sight-Seeing: Be different to make a difference
In an edited excerpt from his new book ‘Religious Freedom In A Secular Age’, MICHAEL F BIRD looks at what it is that makes Christians stand out from the crowd…