by bob | Apr 1, 2020 | Emotionally Healthy
Last weekend, during a family video chat, one of my daughters said something that I have not been able to get out of my head. While we are in Ireland, my parents are in the US, and one of our daughters is in Scotland. And as you might imagine, Covid-19 was a...
by bob | Mar 27, 2020 | culture
In the Old Testament, the concept of justice had to do with a few central ideas: Don’t cheat people (all that stuff in Proverbs about using proper scales).Don’t accuse the innocent and pardon the guilty. We can come up with a few more, but they all boil...
by bob | Mar 26, 2020 | ireland
This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Several years ago, a colleague in the States shared something M. Scott Peck wrote in his book Further Along the Road Less Travelled, which was a follow up to the much more successful The...
by bob | Mar 24, 2020 | culture
A couple of weeks ago I saw a stream of posts and comments about doctors in Italy having to decide who received a ventilator (and had a chance to live) and who didn’t. The point was, basically, “see what you get with socialized medicine?” Nothing...
by bob | Mar 23, 2020 | thoughts on church
What objections come up for you when you read that statement? This past Sunday many churches had begun using Facebook Live or other software to broadcast their Sunday morning service. I saw a few social media comments about all the great content that was being...
