JOEL THIESSEN, PhD
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    Academy Serving the Public Good?

    Does or should the academy serve the public good? Three personal experiences inform this blog. (1) A good friend recently passed along an...

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    Since my last blog I have started most classes by asking students to share about a news story they have encountered along with their...
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    The Afterlife that Few Desire

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