Life is complex and overwhelms us. Answers for living are rarely simple. Black, white, good, bad, right or wrong, seldom describe solutions for living well. Gray is normal in the complexity of living with seven billion people on this planet we all call home. Wisdom, it seems to me, would best be described as living […]
The problem with perfection is that we never reach it. That’s universally accepted, and even the most arrogant would not claim its accomplishment. The word perfection need not go away, but must be removed as the baseline for human achievement. It begs comparison and causes constant competition in realms of delusion about our individual value. […]
There’s a great old allegory that crosses the religious and cultural boundaries of the East and West. Some details vary, but the message is identical. There are two rooms, one representing Hell and the other Heaven. Everything in the rooms is identical. There are tables, sumptuously covered with delectable food, with people seated around the […]
When demonizing marks dialogue, you can know that change is imminent. We are desperately trying to hold on to outdated and inadequate answers to questions of culture, and as yet don’t see the need for new perspective. We build straw men of issues that are no longer relevant and shout louder because our sermonizing is falling on ears that […]
If we want a world for our kids to enjoy, we must act now! The velocity of the freight train we are on is too fast to make the curve we are taking to the future. We must jump off before we lose our ability to survive the leap. ( This is the 2nd Part […]
Don’t you love the word “modern”? If you see it on a sign for a motel, it means dated. Fifties or sixties maybe, but not current. It was the last of the descriptors of the Era of Enlightenment that denoted a period of stability. We did things a certain way. “Modern” was short-lived, because it was […]
I’m not an atheist. I’m not even a good agnostic. I guess that makes me a believer. I’m not religious. I don’t attend a church. I did. In fact, I pastored churches for over three decades. I tried to make them non-religious. It was like trying to make Congress not political. The nature of institutions […]
