Your Life is Not as Bad as You Think

During the presidential election cycle, American politics feeds on fomenting the public’s sense of dissatisfaction and highlighting problems that each candidate claims to be the answer for. Unfortunately the public tends to…

Theological Reframing During Times of Suffering

Sometimes we over-complicate the spiritual life. In our obsession with the intellectual aspects of theology, we sometimes overlook the more basic aspects of the Christian faith. Here are three basic foundations of…

Everything Bad is NOT Good For You

Steven Johnson’s 2005 book Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter, offered an enormous boon to everyone who wanted to defend the neurological virtues…

Project Gratitude: $1,528 pledged, 19% funded, 7 hours to go!

I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone who has supported my Kickstart campaign this month to finance work on a second book. Through your generous contributions, I have raised…

Kickstart Campaign Goes Into Final Hours

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Thank you so much to everyone who has been supporting my Kickstart campaign. In a message to my mailing list on Monday, I shared how blessed I’ve been to receive such positive…

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Struggle is Good

“Let go and let God.” “Human effort plays no part in the spiritual life.” “If you’re struggling to be holy, that just shows you’re working in your own strength rather than God’s.”…

What Sweeter Music, by John Rutter


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