Being Hermione Granger

Recently, I've been listening to Stephen Fry's recordings of the Harry Potter series. Many people of my age identify these books as an integral part of their childhood and adolescence--a part of the Millennial birthright, almost.

Three Guidelines for Setting Effective Goals

Dear Readers,

It's February, which likely means that we've all read more than enough articles about New Year's Resolutions in the past month-and-a-half. Plenty of us have grown tired of our own goals. I must confess to breaking a few of mine (definitely turn on my computer before my workout in the morning). Oddly enough, though, I'm not done thinking or talking about my resolutions

Generations

This year, one of my resolutions has been to read the entire Bible chronologically. It being January, I am still in Genesis. This time through, the element of the book that has struck me most forcibly has been the multi-generational mindset implied by God's promises to Abraham and Isaac.

The Epic of the Universe

Just a musing from my devotions this morning:

Inalienable Rights?

I've recently been reading Alisdair McIntyre's amazing book, After Virtue. It's an interesting reflection on contemporary philosophy's inability to conceptualize a stable foundation for ethics. McIntyre is working within an Aristotelian framework, which I particularly appreciate (I think very highly of Aristotle's Ethics). But one particular point in the early chapters of the book has stood out to me. 

McIntyre argues that the idea of human rights is entirely artificial.