by Benjamin Robinson | Jan 16, 2015 | Spirituality
Ruling your realm is a concept that I’ve thought long and hard about. Each of us has a realm, and the great task of our lives is to rule it and rule it well. Your realm has two components: space and time. Abraham Heschel, in The Sabbath, put his finger on the great...
by Benjamin Robinson | Jan 9, 2015 | Spirituality
Immanuel Kant demonstrated, in his Critique of Pure Reason, that time is a function of the mind . . . it does not exist in the material world, but is a grid that our minds lay over the material world in order to make it more livable. But whatever lives in the mind can...
by Benjamin Robinson | Dec 1, 2014 | Culture
Last Friday I went to see Interstellar with a few of my family members. I had heard a lot of great buzz about the film and was excited to see it. The film was very exciting indeed! I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end, with all of the unexpected twists and...
by Benjamin Robinson | Nov 29, 2014 | Living
Tonight I had a tough time putting my daughter to bed. She kind of threw a tantrum . . . screaming and yelling. I told her that if she wanted to behave that way, she could go ahead, but I wouldn’t sit there and tolerate it. With that, I turned off her light,...
by Benjamin Robinson | Nov 14, 2014 | Living
My soul follows hard after thee, reads the KJV translation of Psalm 63:8. The NIV reads simply, I cling to you. I like the KJV better on this verse because it is more precise. What does it mean to cling to God? To cling to God means to follow hard after him from the...
by Benjamin Robinson | Nov 7, 2014 | Living
I was often confused during my High School years when my friends would make jokes about “jerking off,” porn, and related subjects. I had never masturbated before, and in fact, I had no idea what it was or how to do it. One day I took a friend aside and...
by Benjamin Robinson | Nov 5, 2014 | Living
Offense is the great stumbling block; it’s intention is to trip you up in order to slow your progress towards your destiny. Offense is not something that someone else does to you; offense is what you do to yourself in response to what someone else did to you....
