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We’ve Lost that “Loving” Feeling Too

Ideas Have Consequences: Human Nature – We’ve Lost that “Loving” Feeling Too Before we start, put the following question in the back of your mind and let it sit there until we pick it up near the end....

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Humanity’s “Identity Crisis”

Ideas Have Consequences: Human Nature – “Humanity’s Identity Crisis” I’m getting old … and soft … and grumpy! I just got back from two weeks of “tenting it” and I’m hurtin’. Thirty years ago, all I...

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Hockey, Football and other Religions!

Ideas Have Consequences: Hockey, Football and other Religions So far during this series of articles we have been laying out a simple framework that incorporates all the unchanging elements of this...

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The Philosophy of Sex

Ideas Have Consequences: The Philosophy of Sex Perhaps the only absolute statement you can make in our society which will not receive any disagreement is that human beings are sexual beings. No matter...

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You, Your Conscience and Pinocchio

Ideas Have Consequences: You, Your Conscience and Pinocchio Every once in a while a news story crosses my path that makes me wonder who exactly is writing this series. Just as I’m reaching the time to...

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Johnny Be Good – An Introduction

Ideas Have Consequences: Johnny Be Good – An Introduction Every day, in homes around the world and in every language, parents are ushering their children out the door and off to school, camp, a...

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Johnny Be Good – A Test

Ideas Have Consequences: Johnny Be Good – A Test Last week I was being interviewed one morning by Brian Patrick, host of Son Rise Morning Show [i] in Cincinnati, Ohio. We had been discussing my last...

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Johnny Be Good … and Loving

Ideas Have Consequences: Johnny Be Good … and Loving In my last article, I penned a story about Johnny and Sara that was meant to help make concrete the metaphysical and anthropological concepts that...

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The Eclipse of Happiness

Ideas Have Consequences: The Eclipse of Happiness I don’t think I’d be too far wrong in saying that most people in the Western world are not happy campers at the moment. Between the riots in Greece,...

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We’ve Lost that “Loving” Feeling Too

Before we start, put the following question in the back of your mind and let it sit there until we pick it up near the end. Gentlemen, don’t fall into the temptation of answering right away, because...

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Do we know who we are? — Humanity’s “Identity Crisis”

I’m getting old … and soft … and grumpy! I just got back from two weeks of “tenting it” and I’m hurtin’. Thirty years ago, all I needed was a backpack, sleeping bag, fishing rod and off I’d go. A...

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Hockey, Football and other Religions!

So far during this series of articles we have been laying out a simple framework that incorporates all the unchanging elements of this universe we live in; elements that are not physical or measurable,...

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Why are so many Christians confused today?

So far during this series of articles we have been laying out a simple framework that incorporates all the unchanging elements of this universe we live in; elements that are not physical or measurable,...

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The Philosophy of Sex

Perhaps the only absolute statement you can make in our society which will not receive any disagreement is that human beings are sexual beings. No matter what a person’s political or philosophical...

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You, Your Conscience and Pinocchio

Every once in a while a news story crosses my path that makes me wonder who exactly is writing this series. Just as I’m reaching the time to discuss a particular topic something happens that coincides...

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Johnny Be Good—An Introduction

Every day, in homes around the world and in every language, parents are ushering their children out the door and off to school, camp, a sleep-over or some other parent-free function with the time...

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What it means for Johnny to be Good

Back when this series first ran, I was being interviewed one morning by Brian Patrick, then-host of the Son Rise Morning Show in Cincinnati, Ohio. We had been discussing my article, Johnny Be Good, and...

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Johnny Be Good … and Loving

In my last article, I penned a story about Johnny and Sara that was meant to help make concrete the metaphysical and anthropological concepts that we have been discussing so far. Without further ado,...

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The Eclipse of Happiness

I don’t think I’d be too far wrong in saying that most people in the Western world are not happy campers at the moment. Between the riots in Greece, the Occupy >>>Insert Town/Place...

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Unfaithful “Catholic” Colleges

In 1972, the Venerable Fulton Sheen said something like, “I recommend that my relatives send their college-bound children to secular colleges where they will have to fight for their faith, rather than...

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