certainty

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    Easter in a time of confusion

    ByTom Wolthuis

    “Vanity” means pride and arrogance, bedroom furniture or the lyrics: “You’re so vain. You probably think this song is about you.” Ecclesiastes sings this song, too, except it sings it about us: “Vanity, vanity, everything is vanity.” At least, that was the old translation.  The NIV changed the translation to “meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.”…

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    The sin of certainty

    ByTom Wolthuis

    It isn’t the rookie sailor that falls from the mast. This old sailing expression points to the problem of overconfidence. On the other side there is the Dunning-Kruger Effect: those who know the least about an activity are overconfident about their abilities. In teaching I have seen both sides: experienced students who make foolish mistakes…