My thesis, Priming for War, Praying for Peace: Building Peace through Ontological Security, argued that violence is the logical result of the stories manipulated and told by powerful mnemonic agents in an attempt to create a collective sense of ontological security...

My thesis, Priming for War, Praying for Peace: Building Peace through Ontological Security, argued that violence is the logical result of the stories manipulated and told by powerful mnemonic agents in an attempt to create a collective sense of ontological security...

I was unable to form the words on my lips because my soul was screaming internally. All I heard within was “It is NOT well with my soul. It is NOT well with my soul.”  All I could do was bow my head in grief and silently agree with the screams of my soul.

“He is not my enemy,” he said. I asked again, “Which animal is your enemy then?” “It's me,” he answered.

Often, I feel the need to lose my salvation, at least the version that I try to control comfortably. Not due to its lack of reality or beauty, but because I tend to tame it. To capture it. To colonize it. To memorialize it and construct a tower out of it...