Feminism and Androgyny

From ‘V-Day 2016 Reveals Feminism’s Problem With Love…and Women‘: “Throughout the twentieth-century, feminist writers began to see themselves as defending their sex precisely through their attempts to homogenize the gender polarity. No…

Next Installment in Peace of Mind Series

The Taylor Study Method has now published the next installment in my ongoing series about peace of mind. Although this article is directed towards psychologists seeking to become licensed, the principles apply…

Reading Online vs. Reading Books

In Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows, he has a fascinating section on the difference between reading online and reading offline, which supplements some of the observations I made in my Touchstone article…

The Most Important 10 Minutes of Your Life

Those who follow my blog know that I go through stages of posting about different subjects. Last year I wrote a lot about gratitude and positive thinking. Then I began posting about…

The Parental Task

 

Controlling the Brain Through Spiritual Mindfulness

From my article ‘Hollowing Out the Habits of Attention Part 4‘: Thankfully God has given you a tool for controlling your brain and fasting from toxic thinking. That tool is called the…

Food and Music

One of the factors behind the American fast-food movement is the assumption that eating should be as easy as possible and that the ideal meal is one that requires a minimum amount…

My Journey With Kaisen

I’m the sort of person who gets big ideas and sets big goals. The only problem with big goals is that they’re incredibly hard to reach. Well, that’s not actually true. Big…

Yes, You Should Still be a Christian…even when the struggle is hard

“I think I might stop being a Christian,” my friend said, a few minutes after comfortably situating himself in my office. “Why?” I asked. “Have you stopped believing in God?” My friend…

The Neurological Tug-of-war

From ‘How Peace of Mind is a Skill That Can Be Developed With Practice‘: “The average person experiences thousands of thoughts every day, most of which flow into the mind without us…

Goodness in the Ordinary

From my TSM article ‘Gratitude as a Way of Seeing‘: “Gratitude is not a type of feel-good escapism whereby we tell ourselves that things are good when they are not; rather it…

Colson Center Column Resumed With Article on Spiritual Struggle

I’ve resumed my column at the Colson Center with an article published last Tuesday titled ‘Struggle and the Christian Life.’ In this article I’ve tried to continue to chip away at the…



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