Overcoming Spiritual Stuckness
On Having a Growth Mindset My parents did a great job of instilling the importance of a growth mindset. I do not always live up to it, or remember to maintain it, but in my better moments I am able...
On Having a Growth Mindset My parents did a great job of instilling the importance of a growth mindset. I do not always live up to it, or remember to maintain it, but in my better moments I am able...
Last week I received a kind email from someone that was asking for tips about how to journal. I was a little surprised but I also felt a little humbled. People have commented to me more than once that they...
Curious title, right? I was journaling earlier today and thought I could spend some time listing out tropes and tips I have heard about forgiveness over the years. I thought I would type them up and make them into two...
Over the past few months, no, years, I have been reflecting on what it means to have a healthy spirituality. Now, to me spirituality is the thing that breathes life into you. And more than that, hopefully your spirituality is...
The other day I took a few moments to look at one of my favorite passages in the New Testament. Romans is a letter written by the apostle Paul to the church in Rome. Romans 12:2 reads as follows in...
The Madman is a popular modern parable. It is possible that you have heard it or heard of some adapted retelling of it. From the Parable of the Madman we first hear Nietzsche’s cry, “God is dead.” It is a...
Hans urs Von Balthasar, in his Magnum Opus Theological Aesthetics, said that the prophets have never used any medium other than art. In all of human history, no other medium has been able to carry the full weight of the prophet’s...
I think American views of Christianity are at a fork in the road. Some are lamenting while others rejoice that the criticisms of religion are finally mainstream. Religion has been displaced from the public sphere for nearly a generation now...
I will openly state that I absolutely believe there is a right and a wrong way of speaking about the Divine/God/Faith/Spirituality/etc. (more…)
Ferdinand de Saussure was a structuralist philosopher, a man who was very much concerned with how the human brain organizes information and assimilates a worldview. From him, we gained the notion that the human brain organizes new information in binaries,...
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