Sifting Trash, Sorting Treasure
When all threatens to be swept away, what would you save? As they say, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Last month my sleepy city of Brisbane had a […]
Category Archives: Spirituality for the Rest of Us
Beauty: God’s Kiss
The English textile designer William Morris said, ‘I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only […]
A Colorful Reflection
Recently, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with Charles Dickens’s least-read work: The Life of Our Lord. It is a slim volume that re-tells the story of Jesus, drawing […]
Should you marry young?
[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]
“How happy are you?”
[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]
A Hard Approach?
Whenever I travel by plane there is a moment before landing where I grow tense, anticipating a hard approach to the runway. My “touch-down” checklist goes like this: check belt, […]
Grace is Gamble, Always
The latest film rendition of Victor Hugo’s classic, Les Misérables, is beautiful and intense and lyrical. The photography is gorgeous, the storytelling vivid, and the songs continue to hum in […]
Chopped-Up Existence
I read very few novels during my formal studies in university and graduate school. There was too much required reading for my courses and, when combined with the ordinary demands […]
Marilyn Monroe’s Dream
Marilyn Monroe had a disturbing dream in 1955. She recollects in fragmented sentences how her psychoanalyst and her acting teacher had her in an operation room, and started to open […]
The Gospel according to Rapists
I have carried a knot in my throat ever since I read about the gang rape of a paramedics student in India last December. The crime stirred a raging debate […]
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