How to use your mind, including the brain part.
Humans, you may know, are unique in all the world. Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler lists several ways in which that is true. One of my favorites, also cited by the brilliant mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers, is that only mankind creates. In fact she posits the idea that being creators is what it means for […]
Take off your mask — be contagious for good.
There are perhaps hundreds of thousands of people in America who think about Covid on a regular basis. Some of those people lost loved ones during that pandemic, and Covid was either a contributing factor or the reason. Some contracted the virus and are still suffering from after-effects. Parosmia, the inability of the brain to […]
The antidote for pride: be humble.
Early in World War II a pastor in an English church made a discovery. He noticed that the young people in his congregation were not reading the Bible. Today there are dozens of translations of the Bible that make it much easier to read, for both young and old. In the 1940’s there were no […]
