Tag Archives: moral consciousness

Artificial Government

A man can learn and decide to cut his losses. A bureaucracy is incapable of learning because it has no mind, only an instinct like cancer to survive and grow. It is unable to imagine cutting losses and moving on … Continue reading

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Rapprochment

Let’s recall something very important: In Christ we live the paradox of having on the one hand a command to commune with others because it’s the nature of our communion with God. To be one with the Father is to … Continue reading

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Pay Attention with Your Heart

As long as I can remember, I’ve been praying that God would rip the cover off US secrets. When I served in the Army, I learned something about secrets. First, the bulk of stuff marked “secret” (or higher) is boring … Continue reading

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Reprise: Moral Reasoning

We’ve picked up a crop of new subscribers lately. It’s time for one of those periodic restatements of faith. This time I’ll emphasize the basis for our moral reasoning here. Our fallen nature rests on trusting the intellect to handle … Continue reading

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Warfare and Tribal Nature

Jack Perry gets it. Even here in our virtual parish I’ve had visitors who should know better simply never grasp the hard-wired tribal nature of humanity. Just because Western minds can imagine something they like better doesn’t mean it will … Continue reading

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It Ain’t Just a Pony Ride in the Dark of Night

In terms of clinical psychology, a “dream” is drawn from the contents of your human experience. There’s a lot of stuff stored in your memories, and not all of it is conscious. If you remember a dream sequence once you … Continue reading

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Moral Process

We stand on the rock of humility. When we come to heart-led faith from mainstream Christian religion, we have to shed a lot of bad mental habits. This is what Romans 12:2 means, because the mainstream is worldly, clinging to … Continue reading

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Cause and Symptom in Moral Healing

It seems pointless to talk about it merely as a matter of counseling psychology. You can get psychologists to echo the sentiment, but they seem to have no power to use the moral truth. As a virtual pastor, the issue … Continue reading

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Heart World Aborning

You can’t do this with your head, only by your heart. It’s not that people can’t change via lesser faculties, but your heart is the only part of you that can find reality and your proper path through it. The … Continue reading

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Tactical Silence

You don’t get to read half of what I write. Would it surprise you that I write a lot of stuff just to gain some clarity on some thing? My heart knows, but my mind is still struggling with submission … Continue reading

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