Sunday morning my daughter gave me a call: "I am kind of freaked out. It turns out that I walked by the unexploded pressure cooker bomb, about an hour before it was discovered."...
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Breaking False Dichotomies |
August 23, 2016
What If The “Still Small Voice” Is Neither Still Nor A Voice?
On balancing the seeming dichotomy between listening to our quiet inner voices and taking decisive action....
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A recent study suggests that our brains are bigger specifically because of our self-interest. The question, then, is how this fits into the nature of humanity....
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Terror inevitably leads to fear which inevitably leads to our hearts closing off. But we can never forget to work to keep them open....
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It's easy to see everything wrong with the world. But what do we do with that vision, and how do we use it to make a better world?...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson recently suggested a that, "Earth needs a virtual country: #Rationalia, with a one-line Constitution: All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence." But just how ideal would this country really be?...
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After an historic vote in the UK whether to leave or remain in the EU, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield considers what it means to have independence, to be dependent, and whether there is room for interdependence....
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In the spiritual world, pride gets a bad rap. How, then, can one balance the value of humility with pride?...
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