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Empathy

June 5, 2017by René Breuel 3 Comments

In a Hundred Days Between Sky and Sea, Amyr Kink narrates his grand voyage across the South Atlantic. He rowed from Africa to the Brazilian coast on a small boat, without […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Tough Friendship

April 25, 2016by René Breuel Leave a comment

No one told me about it. I used to have a nice pair of black shoes, my favorite, the first gift Sarah ever gave me, but which acquired a doubtful […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

The Fear of Belonging

April 18, 2016by René Breuel Leave a comment

Why are we afraid of belonging? Because we lose control? Independence? Pride? I thought about these questions flying back home from a hug-filled conference in Lisbon, when islands of saneness […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

Closure and New Beginnings

December 17, 2015by René Breuel Leave a comment

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 […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

Was John Stuart Mill Wrong?

November 12, 2015by Michael Keller 5 Comments

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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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

Should I marry this person?

August 30, 2015by René Breuel Leave a comment

Legend goes – no one is sure whether it is true or not – that once a beautiful dancer suggested to George Bernard Shaw that they should have a child together. […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

Enlightenment and Infidelity

August 10, 2015by Madi Simpson 1 Comment

Another day, another media attempt to redress ‘old-fashioned’ sexual ethics. Perhaps you read or heard that on 20th July, a vigilante group by the name of the Impact Team announced […]

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Marriage is a call to transformation

August 3, 2015by René Breuel 1 Comment

This past month I read a fascinating book on marriage. It was the sort of pleasurable, impulsive reading you do not because you have to but because that’s the book […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

Love Says It All

April 6, 2015by Madi Simpson Leave a comment

God is love. The rest, I’m discovering, is largely politics. God is love, says the Left: tolerant, egalitarian, speaking truth to power, embracing the poor. God is love, says the Right: father, friend, […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Thank You. For Now

March 23, 2015by Ryan Leave a comment

The mind of a teenage boy is, I am discovering, a fearful and wonderful thing. Beautiful, strange, unpredictable, irrational, surprisingly generous, unspeakably kind, maddening… All within a few hours, sometimes. […]

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