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The Rise of Process over Substance
The decisions of the 2021-22 Supreme Court term have been a nightmare. But they reveal that justice isn’t their goal.
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The seductive power of fake simplicity
People have a hard time with complexity. But we can’t just cut things out of context and call that simplicity.
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What we don’t talk about reveals us anyway
Being honest and sharing our feelings isn’t easy. But we’re deceiving ourselves if we think we can avoid the truth.
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The problem of Logic Creep
Why do so many arguments sound logical, but we know aren’t? The problem is that we are stuck in ever-expanding contours of truth.
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Sometimes a Joke Is Timeless
When Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, he was bringing us back from an extreme position. It is also really important to notice what that position is in extreme contrast to. I’m not into Freud, but anyone who has taken a psychology class knows why this phrase exists. Precisely because Freud…
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Prosecuting the Mob
We all know what the mob boss means. We must stop pretending like the words themselves are the problem here.
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You Can’t Make Me
The problem with the phrase, you can’t make me, is not whether it’s true. The problem is that the very idea is fundamentally unjust.
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When we are all blind
This isn’t a story of healing, but of spiritual blindness. A story about skepticism and the rhetorical knots we tie ourselves in. A story about seeing the truthLent 4A | John 9:1-41 The centerpiece of the story has to be the miracle, right? A stranger walks up, gives a man sight, and then keeps on…