“Change we can believe in” is a wonderful and effective phrase. In the giddy days before and after the election, the phrase seemed to promise that an Obama administration would bring needed change, steering our nation off the rutted road of corruption and driving it onto an environmentally friendly superhighway of wisdom. It all felt [...]
Someone has to say it.
We deserve a better class of people to be our upper class.
Everything in nature has a purpose—so much so that things that do not serve a purpose do not last. So what is the purpose of the upper class?
There was a time when it [...]
Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life.
Of course, there are also ornery people with enlightened politics. This raises the question of whether foul progressives and amiable regressives are two versions of the same thing…or whether the similarity between [...]
Have you ever wondered why we as a people are so unresponsive to the environmental crisis? Given the magnitude of the dangers, it seems counter-intuitive that most people would be so blasé. Perhaps the key to understanding this is to focus less on what people say they think and more on the constructs that underlie [...]
One of the life’s puzzles is how people can commit atrocities and think they are serving God. Surprisingly, the answer is not hard to come by. We just have to conceptually “reverse engineer” their mindset, moving back from their actions to the assumptions that give rise to them.
Unreflective people will have a hard [...]
There are some clever answers to this question. For example, G.K. Chesterton once remarked that nothing is ever boring; it is just that some people have developed a habit of getting bored. In this context, spiritual directors often counsel bored people to approach what bores them seeking to give rather than to get.
Regardless of [...]
Bob Dylan correctly anticipated the pulse of the 60’s when he titled his epic 1964 album, The Times They Are A-Changin’. Those times were changing. But what about now? Are our times changing? I think so, and I have a suggestion about what is changing.
Our “defaults” are changing.
In order to explain I will need [...]
