Assuming the Best of People
September 21, 2022
Part of my character is that I take people at face value, and tend to give them the benefit of the doubt on things. If
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Clarity and Trust
September 19, 2022
At church last night I was asked if I had any prayer requests/praise reports. I mentioned, very vaguely, that we were facing some major changes
My….
September 15, 2022
When I was in college, I remember a political science professor mentioning something about using the phrase “my wife”. Saying “my wife” implied all kinds
Concern for Beauty and Luxury Beliefs
September 11, 2022
I follow a Calvin and Hobbes twitter account because, like everyone else in the universe, I love the comic strip. This particular one had both Calvin
Mirrors and Self-Image
August 31, 2022
An interesting question came up on the DarkHorse podcast: How do we distinguish mental-illness-derived desire to transform the body from the legitimate desire to match
Playing to strengths
August 30, 2022
I had a conversation the other day with my son and daughter-in-law. We were talking about some recent story…. reimaginings. I confess I’ve not seen
Crime and Poverty
August 26, 2022
Coleman Hughes conversation with Rafael Mangual concerning the link between crime and poverty. Coleman Hughes on America’s Failed Criminal Justice Experiment with Rafael Mangual
Learning from Mistakes
August 24, 2022
A big part of the reason I’m reading, particularly classic literature, is the intention to learn more about life. Proverbs says to get wisdom and
Babel as a Story of Exploitation and Empire
August 22, 2022
I ran across another really interesting interpretation of the Babel story on Twitter, of all places. This one is from a thread by AriLamm. He says
The Tower of Babel and the Inability to Speak Another’s Language
August 16, 2022
I heard something interesting today on a podcast interview between Jonathan Haidt and Robert Wright. Haidt noted that the biblical story of the tower of
