In Defense of Objective Moral Rules I recently engaged in a remote conversation with someone to try to convince them that we should believe in objective moral rules. I had the thought that I might better express how I feel about objective moral rules if I draw on my own…

My law school professor said laughingly, ‘Well, I suppose maybe we could make our law students read Harry Potter!’ My professor had asked me why I seemed to be one of the better writers in our law clinic. I answered that I had heard that to write well, you should…

Dear Readers: I would like to take a break from my usual subjects to share my beliefs about the Lord God Jesus Christ and His offer of endless love and forgiveness for us. As I understand it, no one else in the world offers us the kind of endless love…

You Are Offered Endless Love and Forgiveness; the Choice Whether to Accept such Offer is Yours Dear Readers: I would like to take a break from my usual subjects to share my beliefs about the Lord God Jesus Christ and His offer of endless love and forgiveness for us. As…

You don’t know who might help you or hurt you To tell you in advance, the moral of this article is that it pays to be gracious and respectful to almost everyone you meet, because you don’t know just who may be able to help you or hurt you. Once…

Key # 7: Finding Signs of God in the Everyday: There may not be absolute proof that there is a God. However, I would argue that we can find signs in our everyday experience that argue for the existence of God. …

Embracing Confusion I was musing about writing an article, and the following concluding sentence came to me: “And so, with hard work and confusion, we can become our best selves.” Many people would agree with the value of hard work — but why “confusion”? …

At first glance, “The Matildas” appears to be a science-fiction crime thriller. However, the focus of the story is actually on the titular character, Matilda, and her personal development. While the story gets off to a slow start, “The Matildas” builds into an engaging read — capped by a fiery…

A Key to Happiness Herein, I share another installment of a series of life lessons that I have come across: [I have an update to this article. I shared the key thesis of this article, that the key to happiness is gratitude, with a close relative. However, they had an…