In August 1961, Time magazine ran a brief piece on religion with a headline that could have permeated through our culture, but instead faded away: “Gun Thy Neighbor?” This unfolded during the backyard fallout shelter craze. Berlin was in crisis, the Soviets were preparing for new atmospheric tests, and American families were digging shelters into their lawns. Time quoted... Continue Reading →
The Mall That Was Supposed to Be a Town
Gruen, Merton, and a Third Way Between Socialism and Capitalism Using See-Judge-Act An October Morning in Edina On 8 October 1956, crowds flocked to a Minneapolis suburb to witness a marvel: Southdale Center, the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping mall. Step inside, and it was always a perfect seventy-two degrees, unaffected by the wildest Minnesota... Continue Reading →
Reading Merton the Way We Read Scripture: Hermeneutics, Exegesis, and the Work After Fourth and Walnut
Anyone who has studied the Bible knows the difference, even if they rarely say it directly. Hermeneutics is the theory of interpretation: the principles, assumptions, and rules that guide how we approach a text. Exegesis is what happens when those principles are applied to a real passage and put to work—this verse, this word, this... Continue Reading →
The Middle Verb And the Missing Link
Why Judge is the step every method skips — and how a physicist accidentally built the tools for it: Think of Joseph Cardijn and Eliyahu M. Goldratt as the key link for making the best decision. Just a note: In my experience, the “judge” phase is where people struggle, even when using scripture, tradition, CST,... Continue Reading →
The Crack You Cannot See
Why AI governance is not really about controlling AI, and why that matters to you On the morning of 20 March 1905, the workers of the R. B. Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Massachusetts, were arriving for the day shift when the boiler let go. The explosion threw the boiler through the roof. The four-story... Continue Reading →
Go a Little Way Outside the City
What the Cappadocians — and Thomas Merton — Knew About What Faith Owes the World In the winter of 368, the rains failed across Cappadocia, in what is now central Turkey. Crops withered, grain disappeared into the warehouses of speculators waiting for prices to climb, and people experiencing poverty in Caesarea began to starve. Basil,... Continue Reading →
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