I hate Abercrombie and Fitch. It all started a few years ago. A member of my youth group worked at one of their stores in a suburb of Chicago. I was minorly troubled that she was employed at the store. But what really flamed my loathing for Abercrombie was when they asked her to model their clothes for their catalogue. She told me about their offer and I responded in the only way an over-protective youth pa ...

How will the human species continue to evolve? That was the question posed earlier in the week by CBS’s Sunday Morning in a segment called “The Future of Evolution.” But before looking to the future of human evolution, Sunday Morning briefly examined its history. This was a wise direction for the segment, in my opinion, because before we speculate on what we’re evolving into, we need to know what we’ve evol ...

There was an angry deity in need of appeasement at the Cross that day, and it was us. As it has always been us when it comes to sacrifice. ...

We say we want to know the truth, but in reality we are hiding from the truth. We don’t want the truth; we want to live in a myth. Unfortunately, the myth looks deceptively like truth. The myth doesn’t set us free; it enslaves us. I’ll risk the cliché about truth because, ironically, it is true. Jack Nicholson was right, we can’t handle the truth, because the truth about ourselves makes us uncomfortable. ...

A confession to start: My wife and I are proud citizens of Colbert Nation. Yup. We love Stephen Colbert. In fact, a certain angst permeates our house whenever Colbert goes on vacation and we’re relegated to reruns – as evidenced by the cuss words that flowed from my wife’s mouth last week. It wasn’t pretty. I mean, she’s pretty. But her words … they weren’t pretty. Our citizenship in Colbert Nation tells yo ...

"Can a scapegoat be guilty?” That’s one of the most frequently asked questions we receive at the Raven Foundation. And it’s one of the more difficult questions to answer because of the emotions underneath the surface. For example, take Republican Senate nominee from Missouri Todd Akin. His statement last Sunday about rape, pregnancy, and the female body is the latest in our national political scandals. Akin ...

Last night someone asked me if I’d heard about the Kristen Stewart sex scandal. Unfortunately, I had. Because I check my email. I go through yahoo.com to get to my email, in part because yahoo.com is a quick way to catch up on news. Apparently, the folks at yahoo.com thought the story, with the headline “Stewart Cheats with Director,” was news. Stewart, as you may know, plays the lead character in the Twili ...

It’s painful to watch the 10 minute video. Karen Klein, a 68 year old middle school bus monitor, was relentlessly bullied by 13 year old punks. The boys taunted Karen with escalating profanity and insults. They mimicked one another as each insult topped the previous one. They called her fat, told her she looks like a troll, and they poked at her hearing aid. Then they demanded her address so they could egg ...

Have you ever wondered how mimetic theory changes lives? ME TOO! So, I decided to put together a top ten list. Here you go: 1.You will resent monkeys for the phrase “Monkey see, monkey do” because you know that we humans are by far the superior imitators. 2.You will see the destructive nature of religions. 3.You will see the constructive nature of religions. 4.You will understand the paradox of 2 & 3. 5 ...

“Those who say that the media and our political leaders are out of touch with the ‘real’ America have a point.”  Thus begins Stuart Muszynski in his fascinating article on the Huffington Post called “Taking America Down the Rabbit Hole”. Muszynski (who runs "Purpe America", a really cool educational organization that explores America's values) claims that the news media has become a form of violent entertai ...