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Why Does God Allow So Much Evil in the World?
I don’t know. That’s the bottom line, so let’s just face it now. I don’t know. And, so far as my research has taken me, nobody else does, either. But […]
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Is There Life After Success?
To answer this question, we need to understand what success in life is: When you are 12-months-old, success is to be able to walk. When you are 2, success is […]
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Joyful Contentment
Levir Rodrigues dos Santos is one of the men I came to admire the most. He was my wife’s dad, my father-in-law. I met him when I was only ten […]
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What’s on your Christmas list?
Q. Isn’t making out a Christmas list kind of crass? Shouldn’t we be more concerned to give than to get at Christmastime? A. I agree that “it is more blessed […]
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Gossip Medication
Gossip feels therapeutic. When we are feeling down, nothing can anesthetize our blues better than negative news about someone else. Writer Anne Lamott describes a moment once when she felt […]
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Dancing Hula-Hula in Tahiti
In an 1867 play called Peer Gynt, Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen expresses what would become one of the fundamental dogmas of modern, and even more post-modern, humanism: “What should a man be? […]
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The Paradox of Happiness
[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]
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Small-sized Happiness
As harmless as it might seem, that dress billboard is part of a culture that defines beauty and happiness according to its own commercial logic. It is an illustration of our society’s ideal of...
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“How happy are you?”
[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]
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Should you marry young?
[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]
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Prosperity according to the Bible
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired, disgusted and dismayed, at a movement in contemporary Christianity called the Prosperity Gospel. You probably know that it’s misguided, that it baptizes […]
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A Breath of Beauty
An iconic movement blossomed in Parisian circles in the late 1860s. Artists like Claude Monet, Jean-Pierre Renoir and Edward Degas started to forge a new way of painting, opening a […]
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Love Continued
I have just watched the quite recent (though by now already last year’s…) movie About Time. Featuring Rachel McAdams and other fine actors, it was a plot that surprised and […]
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What If?
Do you ever wonder about what might have been? What if I had taken that job? What if I had moved to that city or stayed in that city? What […]
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Is There Life After Success?
To answer this question, we need to understand what success in life is: When you are 12-months-old, success is to be able to walk. When you are 2, success is […]
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Christian Sex
They say there are three subjects one should never raise at a dinner party: sex, religion and politics. However, since the same social protocols have not yet made it into […]
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What’s on your Christmas list?
Question: Isn’t making out a Christmas list kind of crass? Shouldn’t we be more concerned to give than to get at Christmastime? Answer: I agree that “it is more blessed […]
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Why Does God Allow So Much Evil in the World?
I don’t know. That’s the bottom line, so let’s just face it now. I don’t know. And, so far as my research has taken me, nobody else does, either. But […]
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On Present and Future Selves
Unlike animals that live in the moment and merely cope with the world (however smoothly), we are… drawn out of our present selves toward some more skilled future self that […]
View ArticleWhy I wrote The Paradox of Happiness
I wrote The Paradox of Happiness, ironically, because I felt unhappy about our current understandings of happiness. What are the common proposals? Buy this product. Get this gorgeous. Follow the seven […]
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