Category: Culture

The idea of writing about this came from a monthly journal I love more than any other. Gilbert Meilaender wrote a piece about this topic and I’m stealing his concept.  There have…

There are two kinds of people: those who plan and those who go with the flow. We tend to put every person in the world (including ourselves) into one of these two…

Porn.  In American culture, this four letter word elicits wildly diverse reactions – from sheepish looks and smirks and comments like “it’s a victimless crime,” to ideological arguments that pornography is actually…

What does it mean to be an exile? The concept isn’t really around anymore (at least not in modern day Western society), but it was used routinely in ancient times as a…

Everywhere I look it seems the message that is being shoved in our face is that we are strong, we are awesome, and we are enough. Somewhere in our broken humanness, we…

I recently finished re-reading my favorite book apart from the Good Book – The Lord of the Rings. I am an incurable nerd when it comes to this classic by J.R.R. Tolkein.…