Romanticizing Suffering Part 2

Suffering’s fallout hits men hard.  It’s easier for women to have romantic views of suffering than it is for men.  This is because, while suffering is horrible for either gender, the fallout of suffering hits men particularly bad.  This is because...

Consumerist Shaming

Little disgusts me more than consumerist shaming.  Looking down on people for valuing wealth and material things.  This is so hypocritical because we all need to have a certain level of material success to be accepted in this society (especially as you get into your...

Why Therapists Should Talk Politics

Great NYTimes article on people always blaming themselves for toxic situations: When people can’t live up to the increasingly taxing demands of the economy, they often blame themselves and then struggle to live with the guilt. You see this same tendency, of course, in...

Trump really resonates

There is a fascinating Reddit post on Trump’s appeal to the working class.  I think the conventional thinking of Republican strategists was that the rich white people would call the shots and the poor white people would fall in line voting against their economic...

Unexpected Evangelism Roadblocks

People trying to get millennials into or back to the faith have their work cut out for them.  Sometimes for reasons they don’t expect: Psychotropic medications have done a better job at giving us hope, strength, and peace than our experience of God has.  Anti...
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