Geoffrey Holsclaw
“You can’t hold on to love and live by the law of the jungle…” John Mark McMillan Why love? Why hold on to love? And why should I love my enemy? Worldly-Love might perpetuate the species. But Enemy-Love might save our humanity. Because maybe Enemy-Love is what makes us human, the most human. And if human, then maybe […]
Why are human infants so helpless compared to other mammal? Is it because of our big brains? Kind of yes. And the reasons are essential for thinking about discipleship. I’m continuing with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’ll be going through one lesson a week building up […]
The church so often numbs and ignores emotions. Is it any wonder people leave when they learn to feel, attend to, and even trust their emotions, when being “emotional” stops being, by definition, wrong? Do you see this happening? What are the consequences you see? And in 2020 people experienced multiple societal traumas. If churches […]
“Those just are my feeling. You can’t reason with them!” “Let’s be reasonable. Don’t let feelings get in the way of facts.” Both of those statements are wrong. They are wrong because they look at the brain as if it has different parts: an emotional part, and a reasonable part. But your brain is a […]
Ancient wisdom and the received science says we have three brains. But we don’t. So says Lisa Feldman Barrett. Or do we? This is what we are talking about as we continue with Barrett’s new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (I’ll be going through one lesson a week building up to the launch […]
Learning to be yourself while still engaging with others is hard word. Acting like myself at all times, in all situations, with all kinds of people is hard work. Absorbed or Against Sometimes we are ABSORBED by others and their interests, desires, power, or fantasies. Maybe we are defeated. Maybe we just defer to others […]