If you want to know what a society truly worships, don’t look at its monuments. Don’t bother with its mission statements. Don’t visit its churches. Look at its forbidden words. Every civilization in history has had verbal landmines that trigger disgust, fear, or punishment. The content of those taboos is never arbitrary. It is these forbidden words that reveal what a culture considers sacred, and when those taboos change, it indicates that the civilization has rearranged its

Faith begins at the dinner table, not the pew. The mashed potatoes of faith. According to a new Harvard study of more than 16,000 churchgoing adults, a person’s connection to faith starts at home, not the church.   Your intuition is now evidence-based. A best practice.   In 2024, the Pew Research Center reported that 28% of U.S. adults were religiously unaffiliated. Checkers of the “none” box. That box is getting bigger because of generational succession - meaning that each y

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." William Butler Yeats   W.B. Yeats made this observation...

Truth is precious but can be difficult, even painful, to find. It’s like looking for my golf ball after I hit my first drive off the tee...