Judging Inconsistencies

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Society & Culture | Comments Off

Recently, I've been listening to the Unbelievable? podcast, available on iTunes. In my usual, borderline OCD manner I had to start listening beginning with the oldest podcast available, so I started listening to episodes from the end of 2007. On one such episode, they had a guest on the show who was a Reiki healer named Beverly. While there were a number of things that she said that I took issue with theologically, one of the ...

The Convenience of Money

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Society & Culture | Comments Off

I don't know if you're old enough to remember this, and perhaps I'm showing my age a bit, but do you remember what life was like before debit cards? I still remember what it was like when we didn't have the Internet (or at least the World Wide Web), or cell phones, or ATMs. The more I think about that, the more I can't help but wonder if all the conveniences and advances in technology actually ...