Seek and ye shall find. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. I will go before you and make the crooked places straight. What all of these statements (and countless others) point to - at least to me - is this: seek God and God will ensure you find It. What I've found [...]

There are two well-known psychological phenomena that illustrate just how difficult it is for humans to properly understand themselves and the world around them: confirmation bias and its cousin, the backfire effect. Confirmation bias speaks to our habit of cherrypicking information that supports our previously held beliefs and rejecting any evidence that runs counter to [...]

It's said that we don't seek God but rather, when it's our time, God seeks us. I can't speak for the experiences of others, but that certainly holds true here. Truth be told I'm still routinely astonished to learn that almost no one thinks about God the way I do. (Mind you, when I speak [...]

On the rare occasions I check the news or social media channels, I see nothing has changed. Those on the Right are convinced the nation is awash with anarchists forcing the nation into some kind of lawless, socialist welfare state; those on the Left are convinced the nation is teeming with racists hellbent on creating [...]

You and I don't know what we are. Don't know how we got here nor where we're off to next. Yet we are forever tossing around our opinions about this, that, everything. Look at the world news. Fear dominates, all of humankind paralyzed by the idea they'll come down with COVID, become seriously ill, die. [...]

Your eye has three receptors for perceiving red, blue, and green. The eye and brain then combine those colors to allow for approximately 300 different shades of color (e.g. orange, purple, yellow, and so on). This, for all intents and purposes, constitutes the world that we see. What if we wanted to see the entire [...]

It wakes you in the wee hours when you want only to sleep, whispers in your ear while you celebrate yet another milestone birthday, gazes up at you from earth or urn when you say good-bye to yet another loved one. It is the question that has haunted every self-aware human since the dawn of [...]

Each of us knows that person who is thin-skinned, hypersensitive, forever waiting for his/her buttons to be pushed, right? Of course you do. He/she gazes back at you in the mirror each day. Ah yes, you think, no doubt in a magnanimous spirit, I suppose I can be a bit sensitive on some issues. But [...]

Self-confidence. Self-loathing. Key measuring sticks by which we measure human happiness or misery, success or failure. We eschew self-loathing, but we aspire to self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love. And what we really want (but shhhh, don't admit it, since that would make us look bad), is to stand just a little taller than the neighbor, to make more [...]

Comedian-sage George Carlin had a bit where he advised parents to encourage their kids to question everything. "Kids have to be warned that there is bullshit coming down the road," said Carlin. "That's the biggest thing you can do for a kid." Parents, Carlin added, are the biggest perpetuators of bullshit, which is why most [...]