People like to blame God for things. They like to blame him for things that have gone wrong in their lives, for disasters, for injustices, for unfortunate things that happen to themselves and to others. This is not surprising considering the tendency to pass blame and shirk responsibility that is common to mankind. However, […]
Spirituality – something that belongs to church or clergy in ecclesiastical law; a sensitivity or attachment to religious values; the quality or state of being spiritual (relating to the spirit, sacred matters, or supernatural beings or phenomena).
Spirituality is an immense and immensely confusing topic for discussion. In any conversation our ultimate mediator of discussion is […]
Stephen Covey wrote that most people spend their time on that which is urgent, and not necessarily important. Effective people decide on their courses of action based on that which is important, irregardless of urgency. Back to this later…
In forming the federal government, the founding fathers initiated a bicameral legislature. If you’ve forgotten high school […]
Every generation has its great myths – the beliefs which help define it, and which it cherishes with little or no evidence to support them. In perhaps the most misunderstood passage of his masterpiece of American literature, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain called attention to and mocked one of the great myths of antebellum America: that […]
My last essay discussed the classic thought experiment the “Ann Frank dilemma”, in which the subject is asked to imagine that he lives in Germany during the Third Reich, that he is hiding Ann Frank and her family in his attic, and that an SS officer appears at his door and asks him, “Are there […]
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