A friend of mine, who taught rhetoric (speaking and writing) to college freshmen, assigned her classes to write essays on the two or…

The book of Ecclesiastes is often cited as a source of wisdom in terms of finding meaning in life. Some Bible scholars however,…

In his book Maybe, Maybe Not, on p.117-121, Robert Fulghum wrote about a time when he was teaching philosophy to high-school seniors. He…

I read an article by Parker Bouer, in the spring 2018 issue of American Scholar magazine (p. 64), about the extinction of the…

One of my pet peeves is that manufactures deliberately make things so that they will wear out sooner than they need to. The…

I once taught a series of classes for my church called “Living Fully/Dying Well” based on a book by Ruben Job. The main…

In the early 1970s I belonged to a discussion group on the campus of the University of Northern IA. One of the topics…

The National Safety Council recently announced that for the first time in history the odds of an American dying from an accidental opioid…

Jemima Packington claims she can predict the future with asparagus. As the only known “asparamancer,” this 63-year-old British woman says she sees the…

Our feelings range on a continuum from depressed to exuberant. On any given day, in whatever circumstances we find ourselves, we can be…