Plugging our ears and trying to shout it down only exhausts us and makes us look silly. Change is a daunting and uncomfortable thing, even a change for the better we fully want and have worked for. Change means replacing something known with something new, unfamiliar, and it is a…

They taste sweet in the moment but dissolve almost instantly with little to no lasting value. We all like to win. It’s a great feeling. A feeling we all need to experience from time to time in our lives in order to feel we have some degree of control and…

We humans are most dangerous when we only know a little bit. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski Our desire to be right is not merely a flexing of arrogant ego. It…

Our ability to effectively use language is not something to try and automate. Technology has entered into just about every aspect of our lives and automation has generated incredible levels of efficiency and convenience. However, our capacity to effectively use language is a far more critical skill than remembering phone…

Others always have it, we never do. Choice is the primary, fundamental, core component of freedom. To have choice is to have freedom. It is the single most empowering ingredient in our lives. Ironically it is also what we often use as a scapegoat to criticize and dismiss the perceived…

It is at the root of all our societal strife. Feeling powerless is one of the worst, if not the worst, feelings we can experience in our lives. Feeling unable to have any control over our lives strikes directly at the heart of our survival instincts. If we have no…

Neither is a full solution. The notion of everyone being treated fairly, equally, and having equal opportunities to thrive and succeed is an ideal we can all agree is a positive one. …

# 5 : It is always a broadsword, never a scalpel. Evangelicalism is an ardent form of Protestant Christianity which believes in the doctrine of salvation through grace alone. That salvation can only be achieved through faith in Jesus’s atonement, that the Bible is God’s authoritative doctrine over mankind, and…

Happen before the merit measuring even begins. We can all agree equality as an ideal is a positive and desirable thing. Everyone being treated equally, experiencing life with equal footing and security. That doesn’t mean everyone always winning and no one ever losing but rather everyone having an equal opportunity…