What do you do well? Are you perhaps good at conversation? Skilled at playing music? Or, perhaps, a master at the specifics of your job? Next question: How much do you enjoy or even need to be told that you do something well? The pleasure of affirmation is a seductive pull.
Read MoreWhat does literal mean? Is it realistic to aspire to a literal interpretation of the Bible?
Read MoreRomantic love saturates the stories we watch, read and ponder. Denis De Rougemont, in his compelling Love in the Western World, says, “love and death, a fatal love—in these phrases is summed up, if not the whole of poetry, at least whatever is popular, whatever is universally moving in European literature.” Why?
Read MoreLennox highlights valid pastoral problem, but I’m still perplexed. I don’t actually think I (or anyone) can solve the problem of human free-will that has confounded minds for millennia. My gripe is why it pulls so much focus in the first place, and why it’s common to create paradox in constructing supposed ‘solutions.’
Read MoreI gird my world with task-lists. When every moment is accounted for, I know I’m being productive, and I’m protected from crippling uncertainty around what comes next, or why it should. I scurry; we scurry, like a lot of ants, ticking tasks off.
Read MoreYour heart folds up and drops to the floor. How could they have misunderstood …
Read MoreHow are we to respond to this complicated and intense suffering among us?
Read MoreI am a child of thinkers. Born in the post-Enlightenment West to scientist parents who wrote and solved logic puzzles for fun, I inherited a reverence for logic. Logic undergirded science, science explained things and I wanted explanations for everything.
Read MoreYou know, that view of the future where there’s a threshold of experiences and achievements to reach, beyond which you’re satisfied.
Read MoreA letter written to a character whose reality seems so tangible and relatable, I could swear his author saw into my mind.
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