Tag Archives: Virtues

The Futility of Politics

A hypothetical: a friend of yours asks you for relationship advice.

See, he and the gay lover for whom he abandoned his pregnant, live-in girlfriend can’t agree on which window treatment they prefer for their new apartment, and despite all the other personal differences they’ve managed to amicably settle - like your friend’s being an Anglican [...]

Understanding Your Charitable Urges

Why do you donate to charity? Is it because you truly want to help others or do you just want to feel better about yourself? For many people, it’s feeling better about themselves.

Many people donate hair to make wigs for children with cancer. It turns out that donating money would be better.

Perhaps they [...]

Resolving Conflict

Pastor C. J. Mahaney, on conflict and how to resolve it.

Cravings and Conflicts

I am so glad that when it comes to relational conflict God doesn’t provide mere generalities. He gives us so much more information than, “Sin has occurred” and “It’s worse than you think.” Now that is accurate and even quite valuable, [...]

Examples of Gratitude

Growing up, I always heard that I should have an “attitude of gratitude”. That phrase sounded annoyingly pat back then and still does now. That doesn’t make it any less true. Here are two examples of people with a great attitude of gratitude.

First, Chef Mojo from Daily Pundit wrote about experiencing life with new hearing [...]

An open letter to Final Frontiers

At the request of a poster on this site, I’ve just e-mailed the following letter to the postmaster of Final Frontiers’ website, advising them to remove all content authored by shady pseudo-scholar Dr. Ron Charles from their website. Approximately half of the e-mail, which I share below, is reproduced from my earlier posting concerning [...]

Separation of Church and State

Earlier this month, Dr. Rich Scarborough — pastor, and founder of Vision America — sent out an e-mail talking about the role of Christians in American government.

This past week the Republican State Convention met in San Antonio, Texas. I was invited to speak at a Values Voter Rally at 8:30 PM in [...]

Helicopter Parents

Helicopter parents spend their entire lives hovering over the children. Apparently, many parents continue to hover even after their children have graduated from college:

Sue Shellenbarger writes about parents who seek to get deeply involved in the hiring process. One father showed up with his daughter, who was being interviewed for a job with [...]