All I need to worry about is “Me and Jesus,” right? Pop-Christianity has perpetuated this overly-simplistic dogma. But does it do more harm than good? I think yes. The main reason I think it does more harm than good is that it is almost always used in contrast to your relationships with other people. In [...]
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” – Herbert Simon, Recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics I feel like in [...]
It’s easy to get discouraged in the pro-life movement. After all, we’ve been very actively waging this battle for four decades in the United States since abortion was made legal. And, still, millions of babies are aborted every year in our country. And it’s still a dangerous topic to bring up in mixed company, while [...]
“Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best the books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely nearsighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without [...]
Recently over a bazillion brave souls gathered in the freezing weather to protest global warming. Alright, so they didn’t really have souls. And it wasn’t really a bazillion…
I’m disgusted and excited. Live Action has done it yet again. This time, I think this could be big. They’ve caught Planned Parenthood doing all kinds of illegal and despicable things before – on camera. But this could be the final straw that finally gets them de-funded. Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million dollars of [...]
Those that liken the Christian God to that of the “Flying Spaghetti Monster” or any other nonsensical, mythical figure do one thing well when doing so – reveal their ignorance. Many of them are highly intelligent people, but they are quite literally ignorant (in the true sense of the word) of the God Christians truly [...]
I get that a lot. Apparently because I think innocent human life, particularly the most vulnerable and the “least among us”, should be protected from being killed, this means I hate, dis-like or mistrust women (that’s the “misogyny” part). It also means I want to take away womens’ rights and force them into back alleys [...]
Here’s a recently released kind of highlight reel from the soon to be released (Fall 2011) Catholicism project. It gets me pretty stoked, not only to see this Catholicism series, but to simply be Catholic. What a gift. Give it a watch, especially when you are needing to feel inspired:
As I get older, I find myself becoming more and more of a minimalist. I want less stuff. I want less distractions. I want less good things in my life in order to make more room for the best things in life. I’m becoming a big fan of that kind of minimalism. But there is [...]
How long is a marriage? And I don’t mean how long do you hope a marriage lasts, or how long you hope your marriage lasts. I mean, by its own definition, how long is a marriage? When does it end? There are two popular answers to this question. 1) Marriage lasts for as long as [...]
