Brogrammers and the Coming Singularity

I have the same goals in life my father did…study hard in school, get a good job, raise a family, obtain financial security, and climb Mt Everest. Ha! Totally kidding! Obtain financial security!? I’m not crazy.

Battles! Explosions! Maiming! ~ A Different Royal Wedding

Dancing with the Dream Family

My mother often told us that she had a 28-inch waist when she married my father. She also said that the man could completely encircle her waist with hands that never saw the sun or manual labor. I didn’t know how to respond to this remark which was born in war-torn London…

Pope Francis, the Feminine and the Psychology of the Cross

On the heels of Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on “The Joy of the Family” (“Amoris Laetitia”) we can hear the joyless, punishing existential questions asking whether this dear man is actually a Catholic, the mere mention of…

A Psychology and Theology of Clergy Abuse

In her essay on “Place in Fiction” Southern writer Eudora Welty writes about places and regions that confine and define. This seems to me to be a profound psychological statement. Perhaps there is no region of the country where authors have so captured the…

The Art of Looking Down

The best advice I received from a childhood friend in North London was to look at an opponent’s feet when in the boxing ring. This sage advice came from his father, who was neither a boxer nor a student of the famous Ali shuffle. But the advice proved useful for me, especially when in…