The Same Way We Made Him
We want to believe that good parenting produces good outcomes. Adolescence asks a more frightening question: what happens when loving parents discover that a child is not an equation they can solve?
Category THE STUDY
Essays & personal reflections
What AI Reveals About Being Human
Perhaps the deepest danger of AI is not that machines are becoming too human, but that they expose how lonely, wounded, and hungry for connection human beings already are.
Drink From Wells You Didn’t Dig
Why dig every well from scratch when someone else has already spent years finding water? A reflection on learning from older people—and becoming someone worth learning from.
What Are We Really Praying for When We Pray for a Spouse?
Praying for a future spouse may be less about asking God for the person we have imagined and more about praying for another person—and learning to seek God’s will.
When a Relationship Keeps You Off Balance
Some relationships leave you constantly confused, defensive, and unsure of yourself. What I learned was that escaping the pattern requires more than understanding the other person—it requires knowing yourself.
Widen the Strike Zone
Maybe life gets easier when we stop demanding the perfect plan, widen the strike zone, and give our best to the life that actually unfolds.
I Deliberately Break My Algorithm
I deliberately search for opinions I disagree with. It is a small way of choosing what enters my mind before the algorithm chooses for me.