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I got some decision making exercise while settling on some new earbuds.<\/strong> They were the last item in my list of electronics to upgrade. Annoyingly, there were a lot of options with no clear winners. So as usual, I made a spreadsheet to compare them on various metrics, like their customer rating and whether particular review sites recommended them. Decision making is a whole field of research that I aim to learn about in a future project. But for now I have to keep things simple. This time I learned how to combine the scores on these metrics into one score I could sort by. I converted each score into a percentage along that metric\u2019s range of scores and then averaged the percentages for each row. After that it wasn\u2019t too hard to decide. I ended up with the Anker Soundcore Space A40.<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n I collected most of the discipleship frameworks I was after and grappled with the church\u2019s theological diversity.<\/strong> I finished Four Views on Christian Spirituality<\/em>, a good discussion among the contributors but also a discouraging reminder that religious truth isn\u2019t as clear cut as I\u2019d like. An essay by a friend on why he chose Catholicism over Orthodoxy<\/a> didn\u2019t improve my mood. But I reminded myself that last year I gained a lot of benefit from my Bible reading and that I can continue doing that while I save the big questions for later, and that thought helped me keep moving. The next task in my discipleship study is to assemble my own rough framework based on the ones from my sources.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I took a lunchtime walk through the woods during our light snow on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A post shared by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nSpirituality<\/h2>\n
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