• How to Not Celebrate Valentine’s Day

    How to Not Celebrate Valentine’s Day

    It seems weird to mix Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday. One’s the annual celebration of love and the other the annual reminder of our own mortality. But the two belong together more than we think. In 2018 we are fortunate to have St. Valentine’s Day land on Ash Wednesday. And the juxtaposition of the two…

  • Listen

    Listen

    In the Transfiguration, we get the big spectacle event, so consuming with visual, power, and misunderstanding, we might fail to hear the voice in the middle of it all saying “listen to him.” Are we listening to Jesus any better than the disciples? Epiphany Last B | Mark 9:2-9 The story doesn’t begin at the…

  • Predatory Society – A Pathology of Cruelty

    Predatory Society – A Pathology of Cruelty

    In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the fifth pathology: a predatory society. In movies, an easy way to get the audience to connect with the characters on screen is to show…

  • Extreme Capitalism – A Pathology of Exploitation

    Extreme Capitalism – A Pathology of Exploitation

    In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the fourth pathology: extreme capitalism. Of all the pathologies effecting us, this is the most divisive. And perhaps the most obvious. To root out why…

  • Nomadic Retirees – A Pathology of Indignity

    Nomadic Retirees – A Pathology of Indignity

    In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the third pathology: nomadic retirees When I was little, my grandparents moved to Arizona. They left Detroit, where there sons lived. Leaving them, their extended…

  • The Opioid Epidemic — A Pathology of Escape

    The Opioid Epidemic — A Pathology of Escape

    In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the second pathology: the opioid epidemic. When I left my small-town high school for college, two things rocked my world. The first was the real…

  • School Shootings – A Pathology of Violence

    School Shootings – A Pathology of Violence

    In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the first pathology: rampant school shootings. I remember how I felt when I first heard about the school shooting at Columbine High…

  • The 5 Pathologies that are killing us

    The 5 Pathologies that are killing us

    Is the United States the first rich failed state? In a challenging new essay on Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque makes the case that we are. And we aren’t nearly as concerned with this as we should be. Umair Haque begins his essay by naming your skepticism. And it’s warranted. The reader has just read…