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Politics and Society, Spirituality

Covenant and the Freedom to Act – Public Talk with podcast links

The irony in my giving this talk in that place, under these circumstances... reaches my heart with a deep and absurd smile. I grieve it, yes. But God's plans are always better than mine.

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Leadership and Business, Spirituality

Changing Habits and Impacting Freedom

Imagine you are waiting at a train station. You are waiting to try to get on the train of thought that leads to the destination of effective freedom and the path of virtuous moral development.

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

Contrived Individual Responsibility: the Danger of the New Conservatives

"...it is physically impossible to pick oneself up by one’s own bootstraps..."

May 10, 2022June 18, 2022#individual, conservative, Conservatives, Freedom, Hannah Arendt, individualism, Jordan Peterson, Responsibility, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, ThailandLeave a comment
Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Post-Easter: Resurrection

The most valid intuition of the “religionless religion” is their awareness that the vast majority of people today, i.e., those who “cannot believe”, are encountering Christ, even though they cannot adjust to the idea that life acquires meaning only when one “joins the Church”.

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Spirituality

Lake Louise Wasn’t the Right Choice

I may have made the “bucket-list” choice, yet again, and I would have poked a hole in the bucket while doing it.

August 6, 2021February 21, 2023Alberta, Freedom, God's Will, Lake Louise, Mass Society, Moraine Lake, Rocky Mountains, SpiritualityLeave a comment

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The Sustenance of the Private Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inuJk1c7An8

Authenticity and Academic Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oklxrBVTAI8

Arendt Beyond the Individual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsXOHPWYu8

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