This video is well worth the 9 minutes it takes to watch. It is beautiful because in just 9 minutes it challenges all of those silly, stupid little judgments we make about ourselves, about…

One of my favorite (and sometimes most dispiriting) lessons from Robert Adams was his admonition that you can tell how far you’ve come in your spiritual growth by how you behave when life throws…

Not so long ago I caught a snippet of a story about a U.S. drone attack on insurgents in Pakistan. Turns out we killed some villagers including a handful of kids. These things happen,…

In the cathartic scene of “Good Will Hunting,” our hero is at last forced to accept that the abuse he endured as a child was not his fault. After a lifetime of marching to…

What a peculiar prison sentence is this thing we call life. Each of us appears to have been born into captivity, a death sentence hanging over us, only the actual date of our ‘execution’…

At dinner the other night came a conversation about the importance of experiencing all that life has to offer before, you know, it’s too late. The basic idea being that we need to be…