This last of a five-part series on identity analyzes an identity in Christ.  This identity answers the three fundamental questions:  who is my God (spiritual dimension), who is my neighbor (social) and who am I (psychologic dimension)...

Critical theory is a way of looking at humanity through power imbalances that may have harmed a person’s human flourishing as currently defined by economic and/or sexual expression.  Critical theory's Achilles heel is that it is unclear a...

This is the 3rd of a five-part series on identity.  We analyze the identities of a Mandalorian (Star Wars series), a physician, and a member of the profession of arms.  We analyzed all three identities through our 5 questions.  A...

This is the 2nd of a five-part series on identity.  We review our current identity trends by answering our 5 questions that help us answer how good an identity is.  Our identities are currently psychologically driven.  Within the...

This is the first of a five-part series on identity.  It is useful to examine identities throughout history and up to our modern day by asking one or more of three fundamental questions.  Who is my God (spiritual dimension), who is my...

This episode concludes our examination of the spiritual dimension by analyzing common errors.   Error #1: Mistaking the social for the spiritual.  We think the religious service with its liturgy and building or obedience ...

Second episode of two parts on the spiritual dimension.  Humans appear designed to pursue knowledge and particularly knowledge of the sacred or transcendent.  Defining the spiritual dimension as things that are transcendently good, tr...

First episode of two parts on the spiritual dimension.  Humans appear designed to pursue knowledge and particularly knowledge of the sacred or transcendent.  Defining the spiritual dimension as things that are transcendently good, tru...

This is the final lectures on the challenges of the digital revolution on our humanity where we discuss its impact on the spiritual dimension.All aspects of the spiritual dimension can be harmed by the digital revolution.  The spiri...

This is the second of two lectures on the social harms by the digital revolution.  In the pre-digital world, we desired and sought out relations with those that we had common beliefs and interests; however, the degree of homogeneity...

This is the first of two lectures on the social harms by the digital revolution.  The digital world has led to two main features: we ignore the people in front of us and bully those we don’t see.  We will address the first of these ...

3rd part on the digital revolution looking at biologic harms. Key brain aspects include networks, the neurotransmitter dopamine, and mirror neurons. 4 networks. 1) executive control network (ECN): decision making and self-regulation. 2) salienc...

3rd part on the digital revolution looking at biologic harms. Key brain aspects include networks, the neurotransmitter dopamine, and mirror neurons. 4 networks. 1) executive control network (ECN): decision making and self-regulation. 2) salienc...

2nd of 5-part series on the digital revolution. Today we look at the psychologic harms.Expressive individualism sets the background that already drives us more into the psychologic.  This overemphasis on our thoughts, emotions, and...

This is the first part of a five-episode series on the challenges that the digital revolution pose for our humanity.  This episode will provide a general framework to analyze the effects of tools and specifically the digital revolution reg...

Join me in the last of a two-part conversation with college student Micah Allen.  This episode continues our discussion of human flourishing from both philosophical and theological perspectives.  We introduce three philosophers and th...

Join me in the first of a two-part conversation with college student Micah Allen as we discuss human flourishing in the college experience and beyond.  This wide ranging discussion covers issues within college from Micah's perspective as a...

The last of a four-episode series on redeeming work that discusses how ideological intrusion into our work can degrade, dilute, and even distort the good of our work.  Finally, we discuss the one area of positive enhancement (promoting eng...

The third of a four-episode series on redeeming work that introduces three areas of harm (money, bureaucracy, and ideology) and one area of positive enhancement (promoting engagement or flow) that the institution contributes to our work. The th...

The second of a four-episode series on redeeming work discusses the importance of loving people we work with and for while highlighting the fundamental key of the spiritual dimension.  The social aspect of our jobs is ar...

This is the first of a four-episode series on redeeming work.  The basic thesis is that we can redeem work only if we love the work we do for its own sake AND love those associated with our work—those we work with and work for.  The f...

This episode we review the contributions of positive psychology to human flourishing by summarizing and analyzing Dr. Martin Seligman’s book “Flourish.”  Positive psychology’s current contributions to understanding flourishing can be quick...

We discuss the last criteria of how we can rightly order our four dimensions and promote the basic goods through the concept of mutual subordination.  Mutual subordination is akin to self-transcendence but takes this notion out of the psyc...

This episode defines and lists the basic goods associated with each dimension which we should never harm and generally work towards promoting.  Basic goods are goods or ends that should not be instrumental to another good.  In other w...

This episode reviews the importance of harmony to our human flourishing.  Harmony reinforces the notion that all the dimensions should not harm any other dimension but also that all the dimensions should work … together.  The...