Be Human
Author’s note: This reflection was modified from a conversation with a friend who had experienced unwanted sexual advances. She was brave, stood against those advances, and made the world a bit better by fighting against the society that enables bad male behavior. Every human deserves to be respected simply by virtue of being a human […]
I argued last week that happiness makes us more active members of the community. We need to maintain ourselves and take joy in what we do, to be open to other people, build community, and work on problems. Happiness gives us the energy to follow-through and to do what we think needs to be done. […]
Every organization must have a focus and Being Human Church (BHC) is no exception. We can’t focus on everything; we can’t even be aware of everything. So there is a list of stuff we are unaware of (unknown length), a list of stuff we are aware of (pretty long), and a list of stuff we’re […]
Let’s talk about forgiveness and why religions seem to be so big on it. Venkatesh Rao explains, in great detail and using an esoteric technical example, why forgiveness has to be built in to our culture going forwards. Basically, technology will make it impossible to forget, which means we will have to be able to […]
The phrases “choose your battles” and “don’t die on that hill” and “live to fight another day” are all getting at the same thing. Whatever is important at the moment probably isn’t important enough to die for. Events happen whether or not anyone is alive, but events don’t mean anything unless someone is alive to […]