words
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Nobody is Never True
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2 min read
We love accuracy. But we’ll throw it in the trash when given the chance to emphasize something we think is important.
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Nobody actually tries to fight fire with fire
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3 min read
It’s a dumb saying. It wasn’t always so. But if we better understood what it is trying to tell us, we’d all benefit.
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The Problem With Raising Resilient Kids
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3 min read
Is that sometimes you can’t. The thing about kids is that they will ultimately do what they want. And this, of course, is a good thing. We can’t make our kids resilient. We can, at best, help them develop the tools to be resilient. As the idea of raising resilient kids becomes even more trendy…
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Hawks and Doves
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3 min read
The keen hawk is too flattering an image for those who perpetually push for war. We need something far more short-sighted.
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The word terrorism should not be useful
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6 min read
It is descriptive. We can define terrorism as “The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.” The textbook definition doesn’t say anything about Islam. [bctt tweet=”‘If we are to speak of terrorism as a useful…
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Word obsessed
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2 min read
Lately, though, words have begun to mean even more to me. Not simply because I write, teach, and preach as a priest or as a sentry posted to defend orthodoxy from the heretics. [That’s all nonsense to me, by the way.] But because our faith keeps coming back to words. Simply words. Having words. Words…