Personality traits applied to political thought forced me to optimize my approach to people who weren’t as “infallible” as I used to think I was.

I share a story, talk to a neighbor, and surprise five ruffed grouse. Comments are welcome at [email protected]

A story from Lakeside Imagination vol. 1 for you to enjoy. Comments are welcome at [email protected]

For Nathan

How do you separate the value of believing from the object of faith? Would there be a need to draw such a distinction if faith were personal? Is it possible to participate in an organized religion without defining the difference? The convoluted and wandering question takes further shape.

I discovered that when you are considering the miraculous nature of the Eucharist it might be helpful to differentiate two different perspectives of the Miraculous. It suggests the idea that we don’t get to demand miracles but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look for them.

I make a suggestion to optimize your approach to your relationships when misfortune hands you a challenge. (Obviously I approach this from a male perspective, but although in theory it can affect men and women in my experience the dietary aspect of this idea seems to stem almost exclusively from feminine sources. I recognize that imbalance but felt like an attempt to make it strictly gender neutral would make it sound inauthentic. Please share with me the masculine counterpart as you have observed it at [email protected]

Our household motto is “It’s a good weird!” I know I appear unique, but would I have to be? Just how scalable is my experiment?

I am convinced that most criticism of organized religion mistakenly   attacks the philosophical foundations of the religion.  If instead we   challenged the assumption that religion ought to be applied to others,   we may find the criticism much more helpful.

Not sure who might find this interesting. But here is an honest question, I don’t know who might want to answer it, but I finally have a way for you to give me feedback. I have a dedicated podcast email. [email protected]