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Good and the Broken Rules of War
For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end. If you are an American raised and living in America you probably have lived your entire life under an invisible…
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Good, the Symphony Conductor, the Dictator, and Authentic Leadership
In an age when political leadership has all the dignity of a sophomoric food fight, we need to step aside to return to the earlier part of the 20th century and learn from a symphony conductor. We seem in our time to have lost the distinction between an authentic strong leader and a soft dictator.…
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Good AI and the End of the Internet Economy
It feels like a dark storm moving in because more and more what I see on the internet I have to question as believable. Perhaps it was the casual, no consequence, lies we had to worry about in the last election, but if it wasn’t bad enough to hear misinformation with our ears, it is…
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Good and How many Rights Cancel a Wrong?
Hard as it may be for some people to accept, the current administration may have done some good in the world. If the cease fire holds in Gaza , the hostages come home, and relief comes to the Gazan population, our President may take a well deserved victory lap. This writer has been very critical…
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Good, Government and that Pesky Humanity
Human beings are not quite herd animals as history has shown us over and over. Yet despite the repeating evidence, frequently a government will try to frame policy around tactics based on the assumption of humans travel across the prairies and mountains in predictable herds of gullible habits. Occasionally and lasting only briefly (say one…
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Good, Sparks, Fire, and the New Cultural Arsonists
Having grown up living my life in the Rocky Mountains I have acquired an instinctive respect and fear of a drought ravaged forest in the fall of the year. One can smell the dryness of the forest and its fuels. Instinctively you want to tread lightly for a single spark could ignite a beast of…
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Good, Beauty/Bad and Saving your Resisting Life
Writer Marilyn Robinson said in an interview with Peter Wehner in a New York Times article that “the idea of beauty is a Signature of God”. She went on to say: “I think we accepted a kind of functionalism as the aesthetic, and any attempt at beauty is some kind of furbelow. It’s like we have…
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Good, Democracy and the Titanic’s Deck Furniture
There are metaphors that stand the test of time. Theologian Marcus Borg once said ‘a model is a metaphor that works. This is a “Titanic” time in politics. The Titanic’s deck furniture and how it was arranged just before it slipped into the dark cold depths might be a question you want answered if you…
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Good, Hatred, Addiction, and “What’s Love Got to do with it?”
We live in a time when Tina Turner’s question of “what’s love got to do with it?” is maybe the most important question of the age. “What’s love but a second hand emotion?” seems the response and sales pitch of our present government. In the Christian tradition, and many others, love is a commandment and not a…
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Good and the Humanitarian as Terrorist
If you listen to the current news cycle you begin to wonder when concern for fellow human beings will soon be labeled as a act of terror. Mind you this post is not about violence because violence requires one suspend your concerns for aspects of humanity to perform the act of violence. We have seen…
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