We all are being manipulated, and even enslaved, by the technologies which emanate from Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1998 by Dr. Fogg. More
Category Archives: Anthropology
Relating Appropriately in an Anxious Age
Even if Allberry is right that we live in an anxious age, it does not follow that a crisis of self-confidence is the cause. Nor should we assume words of affirmation are the cure. More
Book Review: ‘Nudge’ by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
The cure for what ails American society and the world is not more nudges. The solution is for the likes of Thaler and Sunstein to stop manipulating the Nudged Enough Already.More
Regarding Anger, Fear, and Anxiety as Sins to Repent Of
Are anger, fear, and anxiety sins to be repented of? Some believe so, pointing to the presence of commands in the Bible to put away anger, fear not, and be not anxious for anything.More
Biblicality, General Psychology, and Nouthetic Counseling
Is there perhaps a certain inherent unreasonableness to the Nouthetic approach which we do well to mark and avoid in the interest of being more faithful to the whole counsel of God?More
Honest Preacher, Tom Cruise, Bored Panda’s 30 Teachers, and Chemical Imbalances
Teachers and professors on Reddit report that kids today live in constant fear of making a mistake and amounting to nothing compared with previous generations. More
What Is a Man – Mountains, Hunting, and Vasectomies
I don’t see self-mutilation in the Bible where the function of our God-given reproductive organs is intentionally sabotaged to keep us from being fruitful and multiplying. More
Book Review: ‘The Everlasting Man’ by G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton is long gone except in memory and his prolific writings, so we do well to consider. Are we still producing such thinkers in our day? And what we do with them when we get them?More
Loving God With Everything You’ve Got, and Your Neighbor as Yourself
Given the importance of relationships to a happy, healthy, holy life, we do well to grapple with what to do when various relationships in life present competing claims.More
What It Means to be Good Men
Maybe what it means to be good men is that we turn our back on the frivolous, unscrupulous naysayers and walk away from them. Tune them out. They’re not really listening anyway.More