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  • Is Harvard’s New ‘Center of Happiness’ Quixotic?

    Is Harvard’s New ‘Center of Happiness’ Quixotic?0

    The Harvard Gazette reported last month that it’s school of public health will create a new center to study happiness.   The center, created with a $21 million gift, will research how negative social circumstances—poverty, insecurity, poor social relationships, etc.—can impact happiness, as well as the following areas: Identifying and developing a measurement instrument—a positive

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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?0

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?4

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?11

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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  • Is Gun Control Just?

    Is Gun Control Just?0

    Gun control policy is inherently unjust. The reasons for this have to do with what is meant by “gun control.” The Issue behind Gun Control I think of gun control as all those rules and regulations that are aimed at restricting access to guns. Gun control does not include safety regulations aimed at taking defective

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  • Is Google Influencing People’s Opinions of Presidential Candidates?

    Is Google Influencing People’s Opinions of Presidential Candidates?0

    Last night, one of my family members sat down at the computer and started googling. When I asked what she was looking for, she flashed a guilty smile and admitted that she was “cramming” in an attempt to figure out which candidate to vote for on Super Tuesday. My family member – and others like

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