One of the very just criticisms of institutional religion is that it has become profoundly hierarchical, and hierarchies become self-serving, top heavy, and potentially corrupt. Human nature being what it is, we tend to run headlong to the other end of the spectrum in search of an answer. In Protestant Christianity this resulted in the…
Who Are We to Be?
I confess that, watching the political discourse over the last few years I have become increasingly discouraged. I have watched American politics, not as an obsession but as a citizen interested in public discourse, since the late Johnson administration. To my more smart assed younger friends, I should specify that I mean the Lyndon, and…
Opiods, Lawsuits, Addiction, and Responsibility
I confess, I am a bit uneasy about the current batch of lawsuits against big pharma for its role in our self-proclaimed "opiod crisis." It's not that I have any affection for big pharma, quite the opposite. Nor am I am addict, though you can't swing a dead cat at my family gatherings without hitting…
Change
If you want your circumstances to change, you are going to have to take the first step and change how you relate and react to what is happening. If you are not willing to do that, the only one you have to blame is yourself. Nothing can change if everything stays the same.
Craig Bergland 