Humility: The Most Counter-Cultural Ideal?
I try to watch a limited amount of TV, but when I do, I try to avoid commercials. In my opinion, they often show the worst of society: rampant consumerism, ...
An Antidote to Indifference and Helplessness
The bizarre storm that spawned December tornadoes and raged across the upper Midwest recently followed an equally freakish series of December tornadoes that 10 days before cut a devastating, 250-mile ...
From a Distance
I don’t know how old I was, but I recall that when I learned the earth was round and continually spinning I wondered why we aren’t thrown off, or at ...
The Most Neglected Need
“A Theory of Human Motivation” is apparently a classic in the field of psychology. It was written by Abraham Maslow in 1943 in the journal Psychological Review and has been ...
How to be a Peacemaker
If you regularly look at the videos in Facebook’s “Watch” category, you get the impression that the country has turned into a giant boxing ring with no rules. Watching videos ...
Can We Choose Joy?
Sadness has a way of creeping into life, even when you want to reflect the joy of faith. For me, this was occasioned by the recent death of my cousin ...