Artists’ spiritual insights
Can art help us read the Bible? Most certainly, I’d argue. Yet more compelling than an argument are actual examples. Take the story of Jesus’ visit to Mary and Martha […]
Category Archives: Making a Difference
Why it is not wrong to kill chickens
Is it ever right to kill a chicken? Or a dog, or a human being? If not, who says so? God, or our conscience, or plain reason, or utilitarian consequences? […]
Prosperity according to the Bible
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired, disgusted and dismayed, at a movement in contemporary Christianity called the Prosperity Gospel. You probably know that it’s misguided, that it baptizes […]
Unfinished business
Getting the job done feels good. I feel a deep sense of satisfaction at wrapping up a project, completing a task or finishing a role, in spite of the fact […]
Making Our Mark
“If our life were without end and free from pain, it would possibly not occur to anyone to ask why the world exists.” So said German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer around […]
The School of Greatness
One of my favorite stories of all time is that of a young man who dreams big. And his dreams come true. But about 13 years of suffering and humiliation […]
Question Time
There’s a scene in Canadian author David Adams Richards’ latest novel, Principles to Live By where John Delano, a washed up police officer trying to get back in the game, […]
TV Watching → Engaging Work (!)
One of my favorite pass-times is watching TV shows on DVD. The series can be so engaging that sometimes I see myself enmeshed in the storyline to such an extent […]
The Social Economy
[this is the last of a three post series. Here’s the first and the second.] My scalp was itching. Just a bit but itchy nonetheless. I lay in bed a […]
Rocks, a tent, and a felony (or two)
[continuing from the last post] Two days later, the weather turned shockingly cold. I had set out on a walk with Ziva, thankful for the cool gray sky but […]
Wondering Fair 