Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Mike, a frequent commenter on my Facebook page, blog, and elsewhere, and someone I have met and chatted with in ‘real life,’ has recently authored a blog post alleging that materialism is incompatible with mind, meaning, and morality. He also claims that secularism is “vacuous and unrewarding” and that secularists are “partial to pervasive cynicism.” Mike […]
Should promises of diversity (including everyone and allowing everyone to have the same opportunities at a college) be limited or otherwise broken by a college? If a college allows Catholic organizations and does not allow clubs for atheistic students, are their promises of diversity genuine? I will argue that in a college setting, administrators should […]
Rick Perry, the republican governor of Texas, has recently called for a ‘day of prayer’ at Reliant Stadium in Texas on August 6, 2001 in which everyone, including specifically other United States governors, is invited. This comes on the radar after he has urged his constituents to pray for rain to dowse wildfires, but that didn’t […]
I recently completed a semester-long research project for my professional writing capstone course. I read various texts dealing with post-colonialism, rhetoric, and colonialism and had to compose a 12-15 page paper dealing with one or more of the texts I had read combining outside research and material from the texts in order to make a […]
