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The issue of greed may be one of the oldest questions humanity has ever asked. We often treat greed as an economic problem, a political problem, or a regulatory problem. It is all of those. But underneath, greed is a human problem. Greed begins with a story we tell ourselves: I don’t have enough. I…

Marshall McLuhan said, “The medium is the message.” I’ve been thinking about that in terms of the human bio-computer. Every medium—family, religion, school, culture, television, social media, books, even the conversations we have—does more than simply deliver information. The medium itself programs us. It shapes how we think, what we notice, what we ignore, and…

I find myself thinking about the old phrase, “the sins of the fathers are passed from generation to generation,” in a different way than I once did. Maybe “sin” isn’t simply a list of moral failures handed down like an inherited debt. Maybe it is the transmission of the bio-computer’s programming—the beliefs, fears, assumptions, and…

Before I get too far down this road, let me offer an observation that has been rattling around in my head. It seems to me that the physical world doesn’t actually enter us as finished reality. What enters our bodies are waves—electromagnetic waves striking the retina, pressure waves vibrating the eardrum, chemical molecules stimulating our…

A belief paradigm is like a cognitive castle. Over time we construct it stone by stone. Every sermon, Bible study, life experience, answered prayer, disappointment, relationship, and conclusion becomes another brick in its walls. Eventually the castle doesn’t merely protect our beliefs—it becomes our home. It becomes the place from which we interpret reality. Then…

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi is one of those stories that quietly communicates profound truths without sounding like a sermon. The premise itself is compelling: a mysterious man named Theo arrives in the small town of Golden and, through simple acts of kindness, generosity, craftsmanship, listening, and presence, becomes an unexpected gift to the…

Pastor, I’d like to ask you a question that has been on my mind for some time. It isn’t meant to criticize the Church or put you on the defensive. It’s simply a question I believe deserves an honest conversation. Is Christianity really answering the questions people are asking today? Not the questions people were…

History is often taught as a series of dates, wars, inventions, and revolutions. But the more I reflect on it, the more I wonder if history is really the story of humanity responding to problems. Every generation inherits a unique set of challenges. Those challenges create need. Need inspires creativity. Creativity produces solutions. Those solutions…

Every generation inherits the same question: How should we organize society so that people flourish? Over the past few centuries, three major economic philosophies have tried to answer that question—capitalism, socialism, and Marxism. Each arose out of a particular moment in history and each was attempting to solve a real problem. To understand Marxism and…

As I look back over the thoughts I’ve been exploring this past year, I can see that they’ve not been random intellectual curiosities. They have been signposts along a developmental journey. There is a discernible thread running through them all—a narrative of intentional growth and conscious becoming. At one level, I have been excavating ideas:…