The Digital Feast 

This week’s police-related events highlight not only our ongoing racial and social divides, but our culture of violence. Whatever our response, fatalism (“What difference does one person make?” or “Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be”) is not on the table. I’m...

Earthquakes and ResilienceThis article is about earthquake preparedness, but it has some great lines on survival as well. Like this: “Resilience, it seems, isn’t just about what happens after a crisis: It’s about what happens in the months, and years, before it....

The Myth of Normal: Hear! Hear!http://bit.ly/29a6o1J Epigenetics: Fathers can pass anxiety and depression to their children genetically, study findshttp://bit.ly/1QbU97U Undercover Atheists: The Internet has spawned a generation of secret...

Resilience and Reality We are not who we think we are. Who are we? We are what we think others think we are. Let that sink in.http://bit.ly/1W5Ka5k When we speak to someone else, neuron connections are made in their brain. Our words literally reshape another...

The Increase of Tech and the End of AnonymityPowerful facial-recognition software can shred privacy with one photo. New technology heralds the end of anonymity. Theologians and even scientists like Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon taught that increased technology...

Hardwired for TranquilityThis is a subject I often address: The biblical story begins and end in a garden. Asphalt doesn’t inspire. Nor do windowless buildings. Food for thought: Incorporating or building into and around nature in our environments begins a connection...

Hardwired for TranquilityThis is a subject I often address: The biblical story begins and end in a garden. Asphalt doesn’t inspire. Nor do windowless buildings. Food for thought: Incorporating or building into and around nature in our environments begins a connection...

The Mind of a Futurist“Putting out fires” is our default setting. There is always an email to send, a phone call to make, a buzzing, vibrating or beeping cell phone to distract and captivate us. The future is delivered to us second by second and it is easy to be the...

‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be“All the failures I’ve overcome? That’s much more important than any successes. I had to repeat ninth grade. I had to repeat the beginning of graduate school. I lost my major source of funding...

What’s Old is New Again: Wicca on the Rise in AmericaThe number of self-identified Wiccans increased from from 134,000 in 2001 to 342,000 in 2008. About 5.9 percent of Americans followed a non-Christian faith in 2014, up from 4.7 percent in 2007, according to the Pew...