Two kinds of anxiety, two cures
Two kinds of anxiety are physical discomfort or worse, and performance anxiety. What cures would you prescribe?
Growing in Goodness
Health, sanity, and happiness
Health, sanity (mental efficiency), and happiness are linked. Here’s a quick lesson in how joy in the spirit reaches the neurons of the body.
From “Judge not” to the golden rule
If I am not to be judgmental, how to I take the log our of my own eye? There is a marvelous flow of teaching in Jesus’ sermon on the mount in Matthew 7:1-12.
The fact, law, and love of God unfolding
The family of God is like a man training horses. The law of God is like a kind policemen teaching a class of children about rules of safety. The love of God may be seen unfolding in these examples, especially the first.
C. S. Lewis, Peter Kreeft, and the sequence: truth, goodness, and beauty
Peter Kreeft Scrambling at the last minute to get all the data required to submit a book proposal to an editor. They all want to know how your book compares with similar books on the market. You think you know the “competition,” but just to see if anything has appeared recently, go to amazon. Type … Read more
Socrates: Goodness, the first steps
Socrates Philosophical decision-making clarifies the truth–or meaning–of the facts and specific value most relevant to the situation. Socrates’ reasoning about whether to escape or to remain in prison is presented in Plato’s dialogue, the Crito. After some preliminaries, Socrates expresses the premise for all that follows, his supreme commitment to goodness. He asks whether what … Read more