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Category Archives: Spiritual life
Are You a Person of Peace?
What criteria are used in selecting people for leadership positions in our workplaces, government offices, and churches? Leaders must be smart people who operate from a wide-ranging knowledge base and who reason well. They must also be tough people who … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Peace with God, Spiritual life
Tagged "one tough nerd", inner peace, mindfulness, pacifism, Peace with God, Supreme Court
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Why a Dose of Awe May Be All the Medicine You Need
There is a not-so-new but surprisingly effective aid for treating many social, personal, and spiritual problems: awe. If you’re stressed out, worried about money, or breathlessly short of time, you need to get your mind blown. Recent science suggests that … Continue reading
Course Correction Required
When Apollo 11 was on its way to the moon, it was sometimes necessary to fire the engines of either the Lunar Module or the Service Module to alter direction. These “burns” included, on both the outbound and inbound journeys, … Continue reading
Take Responsibility for Your Own Thoughts
The thoughts that enter a person’s consciousness over a period of months, years, and decades will have a determinative effect on the character of that person and the quality of life he or she experiences. In other words, what a … Continue reading
Lost on Us: Another Thing We Should Be Learning from #Me Too
A powerful deity has been added to the pantheon of gods. It is as if a star has appeared in the heavens to guide its worshipers through the maze of modern-day life. Though relatively new to the world stage, this … Continue reading
More Than Colored Eggs and Chocolate Bunnies
The Easter circulars came out last week, and they were full of little girls’ dresses and little boys’ suits. Pastel colors were everywhere, dyed eggs and chocolate bunnies ubiquitous. Every kind of ham you can imagine, and some you’ve never … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Peace with God, Spiritual life, Theology
Tagged C. S. Lewis, easter, kingdom of God, life after death, New Age, post-Christian, resurrection, Sheldon Vanauken
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Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide?
The U.S. Department of the Treasury maintains three gift funds, one of which is known as the “Conscience Fund,” established in 1811. The name stuck after the Civil War when a former Army quartermaster who had misappropriated funds sent a … Continue reading
Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Fail?
People who make New Year’s resolutions overwhelmingly fail to keep them. Dan Diamond, writing in Forbes, reports that researchers at the University of Scranton found that only 8 percent of people actually keep their resolutions. A failure rate that exceeds … Continue reading
Find Your Place in the Divine Comedy
Christians sometimes say that it is important to “think biblically.” That is, in fact, the title of a book by a well-known American Christian leader. But how does one do that? Does one try to fill one’s thoughts with passages … Continue reading
If I Could Change One Thing, It Would Be Me
My wife and I recently traveled to Texas to visit our son and daughter-in-law and to do a little hiking in the Hill Country. For many weeks before our trip, I researched flights, car rentals, lodging and hiking trails. I … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Spiritual life
Tagged Jesus, Matthew 6:34, rental cars, Southwest, Texas, travel, TSA
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