The Failure of Education via Failure

Would You Like an Prosthetic Arm? An Illustration.
Suppose I offer you a biomechanical arm (that is worse than your natural arm) to replace your perfectly good arm. Would you refuse? Likely. Suppose now that you have a shark attack, accident, etc. and you lose your arm. Now the offer sounds very good. This is obvious.
But [...]

The PR Reduction of “Good”

While I was reading something, my sister asked my an out-of-the-blue question about Paris Hilton. Pulling myself from my mental retreat, I answered and returned and thought little of it afterwards. Later, when I went to turn off her computer after she had gone off to bed, I saw the source of her question, a [...]

Passion as First and Also Livelihood

We often say to each other, “Do what you’re passionate about, and the money will follow.” But when we look for a job, we often talk about how it pays. In other words, our actions reveal an attitude of the main purpose of a job being money: that, then, is our livelihood. [1] But if [...]

Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone

We hear that phrase a lot, huh? Simply that there is more to life than eating bread? Not that everyone nowadays eats bread. Whole-grain, multi-grain, vegan, rice-cracked wheat, there are many types of bread for those who do eat bread.
But that’s not the point.
If I may… At the time this was written, bread was the [...]

God-Centered Purity

In an apparent continuation of a theme started by a previous post, I was thinking while at CostCo a few days back about something talked about in the book Every Young Man’s Battle, the idea that we don’t even entertain the thought of impurity, that we do not have the liberty of considering the wrong [...]

A Funeral, A Miracle, A Call

A Funeral
Inspired by an excellent reminder by stephchensays, I revisit an old album I used to listen to often:
What if God decided humanity had rejected him so completely that He just… disappeared? What would become of mankind if God chose to “die,” to “go to sleep forever”? That’s the idea explored with gut-wrenching detail on [...]

Blogs and Writing: Spit it out

I’ve found that with blogs, unlike formal writing, that it’s best to get the idea down first then polish it later. Publishing a post I’ve treated too much like turning in a school assignment. Once the submit button is hit, it’s game over. Nothing more that can be changed.
Wrong. This is a whole another ballgame. [...]