Zarephath: November 2016

About Me

Location: Chicago, United States

I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm chemical engineer from Kansas, married for 13 years to a Jewish New Yorker ("The Lady"), with 6 children: Pearl and Star, adopted from India; The Queen, adopted from Ethiopia; Judah, adopted from Texas; Little Town; and our youngest, Little Thrills. I have previously lived in Texas, California, India and Kuwait. The Lady also blogs at pilgrimagetowardspeace.blogspot.com. DISCLAIMER: I have no formal training in any subject other than chemical engineering.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Key Questions Facing My Generation

1. How can a culturally diverse people agree on how to organize society?

2. How can a religiously diverse people live with our deepest differences?

3. How can a racially-diverse people live together despite the on-going effect of past injustice?

4. How can we protect what and whom we love, without resorting to fear and/or excessive government power?

5. How can we value our individual stories, yet remain connected to each other?

6. How can we be ourselves without wrecking ourselves?

7. How can we be intellectually consistent without killing our souls?

8. How can we protect the weakest and most vulnerable among us?

9. How can we provide uplift to the bottom 30% whom Charles Murray describes in "Coming Apart" - those who are trapped more by their own choices than by structural injustice?