Essays

Anyone who has spent time in relationships—marriage, friendship, family, or even online conversation—knows how easily conflict arises. Words are misunderstood. Assumptions are made. Old grievances surface in new forms. Before

Every computer has many keys. Some add information. Some move it around. Some copy, paste, or rearrange what is already there. But one key has a very different function. One

There is an old story told in music circles. A tourist in New York City stops a passerby on the street and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”

From time to time I receive questions about whether I use artificial intelligence as part of my writing process. The question is rarely neutral. It is usually framed in a

There is an old lyric from the spirit of the 1960s that still echoes today: “Free your mind, and the rest will follow.” It was written for a different moment

In the film Patch Adams, Hunter Adams stands before the review board and delivers a line that has lingered in the minds of many physicians and patients alike: “You treat

For more than thirty years, I have tested the principles of A Course in Miracles in the laboratory of my own life. I did not accept them blindly. I questioned

From the moment we open our eyes each day, we are surrounded by reminders of what the world tells us matters. Money, homes, bodies, possessions, accomplishments, reputation. Even time itself

Many of us were raised with the idea that God expects worship. We were taught to praise, to kneel, to offer reverence as proof of devotion. Worship became a duty,

No, you are not being robbed or arrested. That just seemed like a good title for this essay. Before going any further, it helps to actually see the moment that