The greatest obstacle I face each day is despair. Not a temporal, depressed despair, not a despair related to things in the outside world, but a despairing of m...
When we were little, we lived in Maryland, where weeping willows gracefully swept their branches over the ground and the air always had a spark of energy. T...
Harvard is an amazing place, a true hodgepodge of humanity. Here you find people of every shape and size and color and background and belief. But they all see...
Doubt is not the arch-nemesis of faith, but its progenitor.
One of my favorite forms of ministry is to youth, largely because of what we learn from watchin...
I had my eyes closed for the first two songs. By closing my eyes I could block out distractions and transport myself to the comfort of the most familiar wor...
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A week ago, my best friend back home sent a very personal Facebook message to some of his closest friends, myself included. After almost two-and-a-half year...
This semester, I am enrolled in a freshman seminar, Happiness in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. The course description ends with the following words: “We wil...
Update 9/11/12: When I wrote this a few days ago, I never imagined the overwhelmingly positive response it would receive. Over 2,700 people have read this blog ...
