I recently finished reading psychologist Dan Gilbert’s book Stumbling on Happiness, an examination of how the human brain attempts to make decisions about what will make us happy — decisions that, if studies are to be believed, we don’t make very well.
Gilbert’s book is summarized in this 2008 TED talk (the whole talk is about [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about evangelization. This has been sparked in part by some conversations with principals around the diocese in which I work; in part because of the recent elections; and in part because of the flurry of recent surveys showing the declining adherence to traditional Christian beliefs and practices.
Catholics, in particular, [...]