The US Marine Corps is one of the best fighting organizations in world history. Most people don’t know it, but the Marines Corps was almost eliminated twice in its history: once in the 1890’s and again after World War II. Why is the Marine Corps still around and why is the Marine Corps so successful? […]
In our last blog, we talked about how happiness and fulfillment come from good, high-quality relationships. In this piece, we’ll talk about the three basic ways to understand relationships, and find that covenant relationships give us the best chance for happiness and success. Three Types of Relationships Football, basketball and golf are all different paradigms […]
Recent events have put Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the headlines. Companies, government and organizations are engaging CRT without any idea of where it comes from, what it believes or why it is profoundly dangerous. CRT is one of many theories—including Critical Legal Theory, Intersectionality, de-constructionism, Gender Theory, etc.—that have their roots deep in postmodern […]
HAPPINESS AND RELATIONSHIP We’ve got an 80-year Harvard study that says happiness comes from good relationships. There’s a good reason for that. As human beings, we are biologically wired for relationship. Relationship is a fundamental part of our human nature and DNA. Having good relationships fulfills our human nature. That’s why good relationships bring happiness. […]
By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen SON OF A SHARECROPPER In mid-February—just two months and a lifetime ago—my wife and I were in her hometown of Dothan, Alabama, for her high school reunion and to spend time with her father. My father-in-law is the son of a sharecropper without much formal education. He grew up […]
Welcome back to our series, Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives. In this session, we’ll discuss postmodern ideas about relationships, power, rules, freedom and how we develop the young. Remember the three keys to understanding the Postmodern […]
Welcome back to our blog series Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives. The primary reason is that we have three conflicting understandings of life at work in society. It’s like trying to play a game of basketball-football-golf. […]
Welcome back to our second session talking about the Modern Paradigm. Let’s start with a review of what we learned in our first session on the Modern Paradigm. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm was the dominant way of understanding life across all the world’s great societies, cultures and religions. That was until about […]
Welcome back to our ongoing series about the history of the ongoing conflict in America—and how we fix it. In our last three blogs, we discussed the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm—the dominant way of understanding life for thousands of years—for almost all cultures, religions and philosophies. The Wisdom Paradigm teaches us that human nature […]
Wisdom Paradigm Part 3 Welcome back to our third and last session talking about the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you know the Wisdom Paradigm, the more successful you can be in all aspects of your life—at work, at home and with your family. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm had us on the right […]
Wisdom and Relationships In our last blog, we talked about the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you understand the Wisdom Paradigm, the happier and more successful you’re going to be in life. Let’s review some of the anchor points from our last session. In the Wisdom Paradigm, culture and times may change, but […]
With all the wealth and education and technology that we have today, why does life feel disorienting and confusing? Why are supposedly smart people saying and doing things that are absurd and contradictory? Why do we feel like basic morality has collapsed and we’re headed the wrong direction? Welcome back for the third blog in […]
Basket-Foot-Golf: How Paradigms Work In our last session, I teased you with some imagery. Imagine walking on an athletic field and seeing a group of people trying to dribble footballs through a sand trap. Take second to really visualize that. To our left, there is a coach talking about the proper golf club selections for […]
Lost on a Low Level Flight Back in the last century, when I was in flight school in the Marine Corps, I was stationed for a time in the vacation destination of Kingsville, Texas. At one point, Mother Nature decided to send a massive hurricane our way. With the hurricane inbound, a young instructor and […]
Peggy Noonan and Magic Ponies… A few weeks ago, I made a quick post about a column by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal about Americans—that’s you and me—and politics and “magic ponies.” With a new Congress coming in and the 2020 election already starting, it made sense to go into greater depth on […]
The Marine Corps Birthday Last night, I took a friend of mine, Tony, out for an important evening. He’s 96 years old, a retired school superintendent, teacher and deacon. I think he is the father of seven. We went to an event that had about 200 people of all ethnic groups, ages 20 to 96. […]