I finally finished watching The Vietnam War documentary yesterday. It took me about six months to watch the entire 18 hours of Ken Burns’ amazing, heartbreaking deep-dive into that wasteful war. Probably my biggest takeaway from the whole thing was the realization that this particular war is what divided the United States into Us vs….
Category: Society
The Controversy Of Gayness
I was at a church community group meeting last night when one of the participants began to tell us about a conflict going on amongst the governing bodies of the Reformed Church of America. Quick background: Each church in the RCA belongs to a larger governing body called a classis whose job it is to…
Seize The Moment
I’ve been thinking a lot about contentedness recently. There are myriad slogans and catch-phrases that address it, such as ‘money can’t buy happiness’, ‘seize the day’, ‘first-world problems’, ‘do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’, etc., but it can’t really be explained away that easily. Contentedness is a lot…