Monthly Archives: January 2017
When Harry Potter studies spell making at Hogwarts, he has to get the words right. Incantations don’t work unless pronounced precisely. Yet, for all the effort of perfecting this art, the young wizard or witch harnesses real power. No wonder “magic” has seduced human imagination from ancient folklore to modern day fantasy.
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Once we’ve committed to pursuing the “musts” in our life and acknowledged that we can’t do them without God’s input, our next step involves figuring our how to ask for that help. In other words, we can’t go forward without engaging in prayer. But, it turns out that most of us feel at a loss about how…..
Last week I talked about choosing the internal “musts” over the external “shoulds” that vie for our time and treasure, but is that always a viable choice?
Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s asserted: “ought implies can,” meaning that if someone – God, society, etc. – places a moral imperative on us,…..
At a critical juncture in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, the title character has to decide once and for all whether to do the socially correct thing and turn in Jim, his traveling companion, or to, in his own words, “go to Hell” for the crime of assisting a runaway…..