I was well off the tourist trail, heading to Kenya through the bottom of Ethiopia, when a young Ethiopian lawyer sat down next to me on the bus. I hadn’t spoken English to anyone for a few days, so I was happy for the conversation. We covered a lot of ground and quickly realized we had […]

What we do in this life that we have matters. It has consequence, importance. It matters because if we didn’t exist, nothing would matter. It sounds egotistical. It sounds like I want to go back to a world where the center of the universe was earth and the humans on it. But, before dismissing the […]

Do not live for the desires of the flesh. I have a theory about what this means and why it is such an important thing across both eastern and western religions. This theory involves fatalism, psychology,  evolution, and physics.  It starts at the beginning of human history and it goes through until your death. But first […]

Have you ever really thought about what it means to love the Lord your God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your mind? Yep, yep, yep, got it, yep, what is the entire meaning and purpose of life, got it, check, yep. I have always preferred to skip over to […]