For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning
Here’s the link to this article. “Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person… creatively…
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Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism
Here’s the link to this article. “Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.” BY MARIA POPOVA In…
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06/07/23 Biking & Listening
Biking is something else I both love and hate. It takes a lot of effort but does provide good exercise and most days over an hour to listen…
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Bending the Moral Arc
Here’s the link to this article. Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. nearly 60 years after his “How Long” speech in Montgomery, Alabama on March 25, 1965 MICHAEL…
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Why Christian hypocrites describe their darkest deeds as ‘sin’
Here’s the link to this article. It’s no accident that evangelical abusers keep referring to their dark deeds as ‘sin.’ by CAPTAIN CASSIDY NOV 28, 2022 Overview: The sin…
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06/06/23 Biking & Listening
Biking is something else I both love and hate. It takes a lot of effort but does provide good exercise and most days over an hour to listen…
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06/05/23 Biking & Listening
Biking is something else I both love and hate. It takes a lot of effort but does provide good exercise and most days over an hour to listen…
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The Role of the Bible in Destroying Faith
Here’s the link to this article. By David Madison at 5/12/2023 Deceptive translators don’t want readers to see the problems There has been a meme floating about on the Internet: “If…
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06/04/23 Biking & Listening
Biking is something else I both love and hate. It takes a lot of effort but does provide good exercise and most days over an hour to listen…
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06/03/23 Biking & Listening
Biking is something else I both love and hate. It takes a lot of effort but does provide good exercise and most days over an hour to listen…
Richard L. Fricks 