Dear Tristan: What do you Want?
Dear Tristan, Yesterday I wrote about regret and what a good job we humans do of trying to keep it under wraps, or kill it off altogether. Regret, though, is not the only feeling we treat in this way,...
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Dear Tristan, Yesterday I wrote about desires, and how we often choose to kill them, rather than nurturing them. Today I want to talk a bit more about one desire in particular that we humans often...
View ArticleDear Tristan: The Limits of Desire
Dear Tristan, On Saturday, I wrote about pursuing your heart’s desire. Yesterday I cautioned against forgetting what is important as you pursue your ambitions. Today I want to talk about the limits of...
View ArticleDear Tristan: I Hear You
Dear Tristan, Yesterday I spoke about coercion, and how too many of us use it to short-circuit the pursuit of our desires, instead forcing others to do as we wish, say what we wish, or believe what we...
View ArticleDear Tristan: Seek the Truth
Dear Tristan, In yesterday’s letter I wrote about effective communication. I’ve spent much of my life trying to learn how to be a better communicator, and I have learned one thing above all else. There...
View ArticleDear Tristan: How do you know?
Dear Tristan, Yesterday I wrote about Truth. I wrote about what it is, and what it isn’t. I wrote about how I love to seek it out, as elusive as it is, and how I hope you come to love the same thing....
View ArticleDear Tristan: Imagine That
Dear Tristan, Yesterday I wrote about knowing . . . about whether it’s all that important – or even all that possible – to know without doubt that what you believe on any given matter is right. I wrote...
View ArticleDear Tristan: What’s Your Story?
Dear Tristan, Your life is a story. My last few letters have centered on truth: What is it? What isn’t it? How do you know it when you see it? Can you know it when you see it? How do you go looking for...
View ArticleDear Tristan: The Point of it All
Dear Tristan, I’ve written 24 letters to you now, in which I’ve shared my love for you, my hopes for you, and my advice for you. My last several letters have focused on truth . . . caring about it,...
View ArticleStepping Back from the Ledge: On the Obamacare Opinion
Let me preface this by saying that I am no legal scholar, merely a long-time hobbyist and sometimes court-watcher. That said, I wanted to share some unorthodox thoughts on today’s PPACA decision and...
View ArticleWhere we are. Where we’ve been.
I woke up this morning deeply discouraged about the future of our country. Conservatives like to say that we are a “center-right nation,” but in a country where the challenger can win independents...
View ArticleWhy THIS Millennial Left the Church
. . . and why he has no intention of going back anytime soon . . . Rachel Held Evans wrote a blog post at CNN recently that set off a miniature firestorm among those interested in spiritual things...
View ArticleHow Far Fallen?
Any “regular readers” here will know that I’m a graduate of Patrick Henry College, a small, Christian liberal-arts college here in Northern Virginia. Since my time at the school, they’ve established...
View ArticleThe Day I Met My Daughter
I had a brand new experience this past Friday. I met my daughter for the first time. It was exhilarating . . . unbelievable . . . mind-blowing. It was a thousand different adjectives for which the...
View Article40 Questions: Asked and Answered
I’ve stayed fairly quiet in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same sex marriage nationwide in the United States. My views on same-sex marriage are...
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Planned Parenthood: The Enemy of both Life and Choice
I’ve been waiting to comment on the recent drama surrounding Planned Parenthood until more information became available, but with the release of the fifth video this week, there’s not a lot more that...
View ArticleDear Fiona: I Love You
For his first Christmas, I wrote a letter to Tristan for each day starting with the first of December, and culminating on Christmas Day. If you wish, you can read my letters to him starting here....
View ArticleDear Fiona: Watch This!
Dear Fiona, I love watching you. It’s one of my very favorite things. I have to tell you a story about watching you this evening, and how it made me think of what I wanted to write to you in this...
View ArticleDear Fiona: Cultivate Empathy
Dear Fiona, In yesterday’s letter, I wrote about how much I love to watch you watch people. Today I’d like to share a bit more about how I hope you think about what you see in them. You’ll hear the...
View ArticleDear Fiona: Let’s Talk
Dear Fiona, In yesterday’s letter, I mentioned the important concept of empathy, a concept that has been life-changing for me. Today I’d like to go a bit deeper into the practical side of empathy, with...
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