A Zest for Life
This morning, when all was quiet and the sky still dark, I savored a few pages of a novel I’ve been reading, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer-winning Gilead. In one of the […]
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We all could use a Hygge
If you ask me, every country needs a Copenhagen. A city of culture, history, diversity, peerless coffee, sensational gluten free food (I speak as a coeliac), and unseemly natural beauty. […]
On Winning the Lottery
What would you do if you won the lottery? With the record-setting $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot announced just last week, many people, including myself, have imagined what they would do […]
The plot we find ourselves in
It’s a strange thing that, as followers of Jesus, we are dwellers in a story. Religion is often conceived and described as ideology or a philosophy or an ethical system […]
Top 5 posts of 2015
Eager to revisit or catch up with some missed insights of 2015? Here’s today’s food-for-thought with the most read Wondering Fair posts in 2015. 1. My Little Ponies Makeover by Jessica Hughes […]
Christmas for me?
‘The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David […]
Closure and New Beginnings
Last night I watched Aloha, a 2015 film starring Rachel McAdams, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Stone. It is a movie, among a few things, about closure and new beginnings. The […]
… and thank God for Snoop Dogg
I can’t get away from Snoop Dogg these days. When watching reruns of now “older” movies like Old School and Starsky and Hutch, which always seem to be on […]
Son of a xxxxx
I have before me a series of political news magazines collected over recent weeks. The obituaries page is not one I usually turn to first, but having read two obituaries […]
Was John Stuart Mill Wrong?
Ever heard of John Stuart Mill’s famous Harm Principle? Maybe you don’t recognize Mill’s name, but my guess is that you hear this principle really often. In his treatise On Liberty Mill […]
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