Below is a fascinating Ted Talk about cognitive reframing, presented by the psychologist Alison Ledgerwood. She explains how the human mind naturally finds it easy to reframe positive events in negative terms,…
Ever since last year when I read that household appliances haven’t made life easier for women, I’ve been wanting to dig a little deeper into the subject. So while staying with some…
From my post ‘9 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Parenting Teenagers‘: Parenting teenagers like tending a garden. If you are a gardener, the goal is not necessarily to have…
I’d like to take this opportunity to recommend some good novels that have recently blessed me. But first, a few words about my approach to reading in general. As far as my…
From my Colson Center article ‘Hollowing out the Habits of Attention (part 3)‘: For relationships to be healthy, we need to know how to suspend what we think and put ourselves in…
From the Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart’s essay ‘The Myth of Schism‘: In truth, the most unpleasant aspect of the current state of the division between East and West is the…
From my Colson Center article ‘Fiction and the Christian Faith‘ The type of wisdom we gain from story likewise arises from grappling with the complexities and ambiguities of experience, but in this…
From ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: Among evangelicals from legalistic backgrounds [we often encounter] the notion that the only objective criteria for making decisions is sin-avoidance. In areas where…
From ‘Food and Teleology‘: …there is a whole realm inquiry that is prior to questions of sin, namely questions about what is most fitting according to the nature of a thing. To…
From ‘Hollowing out the Habits of Attention (3)’: Developing the habits of mind necessary for reading good literary works reverses the tendency of our digital distractions and cultivates some of the same…
From my post ‘What Science Has to Say About Heavy-Handed Parenting‘: “As parents we are aiming not just for isolated results in particular situations, otherwise being heavy-handed would be a good solution;…
