Enough with the incessant stream of spiritually sprung contemplations already. It’s excessive, it’s overblown, it’s self-centred, it’s intellectually offensive, it’s incorrect and, furthermore, it’s downright damaging to anyone paying attention. So says author David Webster in his new book, Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy. In this brutal assessment, this religion,…
Athletes, take your marks, goes the pounding voice on the loudspeaker. And so they do, adjusting their sneakers at starting lines, assuming tight-as-fists crouch position on swimmers’ blocks, perching like owls on the brink of diving boards. But the fiercest mark to which they cleave is likely not an external one, visible to the anxious…
Time it was a description of the mystifyingly fuzzy concept of “corporate culture” was limited to discussions about the schedule for filling the coffee pot and the politics of displaying personal photos at your desk. The world’s changed a whole heap since then, and an emerging recognition of the significance of corporate culture has mercifully…
There’s a school of thought that’s always contended that a person’s sense of spirituality is at least partly a function of their physical self. How, after all, could the brain, the thrumming, miraculous engine behind such extraordinary output as a majestic symphony or a sophisticated scientific theory, not participate in a profound spiritual experience? As…
Are you a religious person? Think about it before answering. Oh wait. Scratch that. You may warp your response if you do. A new study by University of British Columbia scientists has determined that too much contemplation on the subject of one’s religious conviction could actually work to diminish it. Published last week in the…