Allow this movie nerd an analogy. Any good ending is like a good end-credits scene. The right timing, the right music… just the right level of nostalgia. Think Transformers with What I’ve Done. The Matrix with Wake Up. Or the Fellowship of the Ring with [...]
Options + Entitlement = ...
“whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 18:14) Everyone knows how sucky it feels to be humbled. It almost always begins with entitlement: You think you deserve something, but then it slips from your grasp, or someone else [...]
We lose something important when we write someone off simply based on behaviour.
In July of 2018 James Gunn, director of the Guardians of the Galaxy series, was fired by Disney after a blogger exposed tweets that Gunn made in the last 10 years. The resulting backlash from fans and cast has led to speculations of his (unlikely) [...]
Promise not to judge me? I used to have pretty strict views on dating. But give me a break: I was in leadership of a Christian student ministry and felt like I had to play the big bro. I wanted to protect the girls and [...]
Marriage. Some love it, some hate it. I'm convinced it's incredibly underrated, and I think statistics would agree with me. But all the best things can go awfully wrong. Shawn Smith understands this, and I've reviewed his book which tries to help men date well [...]
As someone who likes to think critically (or at least likes to think that he thinks critically), I sometimes find myself in the middle of things politically. I have more conservative views, to be sure, but I also see some bad arguments or straw-men from [...]
Our instant-message culture has a lot of benefits, but a lot of things come with it that weren’t intended. One of those things is the ease of ignoring. While it’s easier than ever to get information to someone, it’s also easier than ever to ignore [...]
They’re easy to pass over. Even the ones we buy for others - do we really put all that much thought into them? Perhaps we should. Either way, I think it’s safe to assume that the people who buy you your birthday cards actually believe [...]
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