God is. God is not. And you.
The 77% Weekly 40/52 weeks a year of spiritual nutrition RabbiBrian & Religion-Outside-The-Box When say “this is something,” we thereby limit the ‘this‘ as synonymous with the
Towards smiling inside
Dying/smiling inside, smiling/dying outside My friend Guff sent me a cartoon in four frames. The first frame shows a corpse-like body sitting up in bed.
Diamonds or Virtues. Pick.
Father Tony<http://www.demellospirituality.com> believed that the shortest distance between two ideas or two people is a story. His tales were drawn from all sources and they
Level up. A modern telling of the story of Jonah and the Whale.
Level up. A modern telling of the story of Jonah and the Whale. What we do when we don’t want to do what we ought
Intelligent Heretics: Choose (Faith)!
Intelligent Heretics: Choose (Faith)! Are you growing? I know I am. The words of Thomas Merton: “If the you of five years ago doesn’t consider
Why you believe what you do…
Epistemology: why you believe what you believe (And how to game beliefs to work for you.) My son When my son was four, he announced
No Complaints
If you stop complaining, you might live with fewer complaints. The 21 Day No-Complaint Challenge Back in 2007, I realized something was odd. We had
Responsible. Here. True.
Responsible. Here. True. (Answers to the first three questions of the Bible.) The first three questions of the Bible are of great significance to me.
Make Friends Better
On the 10-year anniversary of the newsletter, in late July of 2015, I sent a quick email expressing my gratitude for all of the readers.
The Joys of Not Knowing
We know less than we thought. (Rejoice!) About not knowing With the possible exception an audience at a magic show, most don’t like the
Weather is not my agent
Rabbi Brian talks about how EXTERNAL things ought not overly influence INTERNAL things.
Radical Sufficiency
Human nature seems such that we’re never truly satiated or satisfied with our life experiences. The status quo is never quite good enough. We want
Right, wrong, easy, hard.
Chuang-Tzu, the Taoist philosopher is credited with these words: Unawareness of one’s feet is the mark of a pair of shoes that fits. Unawareness of