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When Ideas Matter

When Ideas Matter: Speeches for an Ethical Republic is a collection of essays published by Michael D. Higgins, who has served as President of Ireland since November 2011.  Higgins covers a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the Irish Diaspora and the Famine, to Culture, Economics, and an especially poignant...

Millennial Generation

The Millennial Crisis

The young Soldiers I first counseled as an Army Chaplain are in their 40’s by now.  In the early 2000’s, our discussions revolved around topics with a distinctive future trajectory.  Things like marriage or divorce, children, whether to stay in the Army or return to civilian life. Undoubtedly, the future...

Time

Reflecting On Time

After the birth of my son, my view of time was transformed. My son was born a healthy, happy baby, or so we thought at the time. We learned that he was born with a very rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Guilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), often referred to as “Progeria”, for...

Doing The Brain Health Dishes

Doing the Brain Health Dishes

Originally published January 27, 2019 in the Cedar Rapids Gazette & the Waverly Newspapers In her Condition of the State message, Gov. Kim Reynolds noted that Iowa has invested significant resources since a 2013 redesign of mental health services and will continue to do more this year with the creation of...

Jeff Bullock

Windshield Time

I like to drive. Even more specifically, I like to drive my car without the radio on. In what I know is a sure sign of some shortcoming, I even pay for a Sirius satellite subscription—which I rarely use. When I was a much younger man attending theological seminary in...

Cultural Oxygen

Cultural Oxygen

Our children are breathing toxic air. I’m not talking about air from pollution. I am talking about cultural oxygen. Peggy Noonan, one of the most thoughtful public intellectuals in our society today, makes precisely this point when she notes that “…a nation has an atmosphere.  It has air it breathes...

mental health

Iowa’s Failure To Address Mental Health

This post, titled; "Iowa's failure to address mental health affects more than jails", was published on September 19th in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.   Erin Murphy’s recent story (“Iowa sheriffs at the front lines of mental health crisis”) does an excellent job of defining part of the tragic shortcomings of...

A Deeper Look at ‘Income Inequality’

A Deeper Look at ‘Income Inequality’

If that increasing divide is to be bridged, leadership solutions need to be proposed and practiced which support environments that create meaningful work which provides for a stable family life, healthy respect for cultural mores which strengthen moral and ethical living, relationships grounded in promises and commitment rather than convenience...

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