I’ve spent my entire life in and around Tornado Alley. When the BIG ONE comes up, your job is to hunker down and wait. Humans have a predisposition towards action. If there is a problem, yo, we want to solve it. But as I have more and more experiences in my life I’ve come to… Continue reading

I have a recurring gag I turn to every year after Thanksgiving. As TV channels are promoting their winter holiday slate of movies and live events, I decide to be a bit of a Scrooge and I log onto various social media platforms, and I start the “Die Hard Debate” (DHD). I begin by laying… Continue reading

All things are relative, but some things are relatively better than others. Continue reading

It is estimated there are 1 Million ants on Earth for every 1 person alive. I like to drop this fact when I point out that the more complex something is, the less of it there is. Conversely, the simpler something is, the more of it there is. Now, simple and complex is not analogous… Continue reading

In 1973 a study was done at Princeton Seminary to see if there was a situational component to being a good person. They conducted what has become known as “The Good Samaritan Study.” The researchers asked each of 67 seminary students to deliver a sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan, a Bible story… Continue reading

Sadly, the US Open is over for another year. My new favorite player, Coco Gauff, won (as I predicted she would when I saw her play in Round 1). It was magical. An exciting thing about the Open this year was it was the 50th anniversary celebration of equal pay for women and men. This… Continue reading

I teach and preach the Bible all the time. It’s the most important part of my job. Helping people see how the words of a very ancient book applies to their very modern life takes some doing. Part of what makes it hard is the human tendency to think everyone in all places and at… Continue reading

One of the “joys” of being a parent is arbitrating disputes between children. We have four kids, so the number of disputes I’ve had to arbitrate over the years is, well… it’s a lot. An early and easy tactic kids try to use in these debates is “Well, what about…?” A kid feels the water… Continue reading

If I could tell people to do only one thing in their lives, it would be to start meditating. People have been doing this since the dawn of time and there is a reason for it: It works. Practicing mindfulness to relieve anxiety can be just as effective as medication, new research shows. A recent study published… Continue reading