Understanding we are Worthy, Capable, Connected, and Called to Adventure for a more Joyful and Resilient Life
This post is about a fallacy (a thinking error) called false cause. I bet you know more about this fallacy than you think. You’ve probably witnessed it, even if you didn’t realize it. For example, imagine the following scenario: Your friend drinks a brand of orange juice called Florida Smile on Tuesday. And then on… Continue reading How the Fallacy of False Cause Makes It Hard to Solve Problems (Tylenol and Autism)
I hope my readers will pardon me for writing another post related to Charlie Kirk. Kirk’s death is terrible, as I wrote about here. I have shed tears over it. Writing and talking about it too much in certain contexts can be exploitative and manipulative. I don’t want to engage in either of these behaviors.… Continue reading A Christian Reflects on the Martyr Language Surrounding Charlie Kirk’s Death
We must talk about what we do about political violence. On September 10, a gunman shot and killed Charlie Kirk, a political influencer and ally of President Trump. I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on many things. However, even now as I write this, I am heartbroken over this loss of life. I am heartbroken because… Continue reading What We Do About Political Violence
Wonky politics, feminists, and trad wives: I may be the first person to use all those terms together. I don’t know. It’s a strange combination of ideas, to be sure, but these ideas share more in common than you might think. Let me explain. My husband and I grow a garden, and I am right… Continue reading Why Our Politics are Wonky: Reflections from a Feminist Trad Wife
I want to tell you about an ocean metaphor that can help increase our personal resilience. Metaphors can create space for us to see the world in a different way, and the ocean metaphor has the potential to do that. But before I tell you about this metaphor, I invite you to imagine four scenarios… Continue reading Using the Ocean Metaphor to Increase Personal Resilience
I have wanted to write a post about Resilient Politics for a while. And I’m going to explain shortly what I mean by the term Resilient Politics. But first, I want you to imagine a scenario I’ll call The Party Loyalist Scenario. The Party Loyalist Scenario Imagine that one day someone from your political party,… Continue reading Resilient Politics: What It Is, Why We Need It
I want to write about how to hope. But first, I want to be honest that sometimes it is hard for me to hope. One of the reasons it's hard is that I ALWAYS have to know why. My mom says that as a toddler, I used to follow her around the house asking "Why?"… Continue reading How to Hope
If you have read the news lately, you may have run across the name Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia is an immigrant who recently suffered deportation. I will return to his case in a moment. Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. But first I would like you to imagine a situation I will call the Trespasser Scenario.… Continue reading Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation Matters to All of Us
I have discovered that changing our metaphors can greatly increase our confidence, joy, and resilience. That may seem like a strange claim to make. So let me explain. Metaphors are framing images we use to understand a concept better. They are common in literature. For instance, a poet might compare the moon to a silver… Continue reading Computer vs. Tree: New Metaphors, More Resilience
This post is about when the right, as in the political right, becomes dangerous. And at the end, I want to talk about when the left becomes dangerous, too. First, I want to tell you some interesting history about the terms right and left, in the political sense. The use of these terms politically began… Continue reading When Does the Right Become Dangerous? It May Surprise You