FIRST LISTEN There is a story about a baseball player who got up to bat. The pitcher threw and the player hit the ball way back to the fence in the outfield. He rounded 1st base, then 2nd, then 3rd, as he was heading home the other team was throwing the ball to the [...]
By: Betsy O’Callaghan GRIEF What do we do when someone we love dies? How can we walk through the fire and pain that comes from the loss of that person who held such a huge place in our hearts? One thing I am becoming aware of is how very much God loves us. He [...]
Forgiveness: The Spiritual Task of Marriage ♡ James Robert Ross, Ph.D., LMFT Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you (Ephesians 4:32). Mature adults have the ability to tolerate imperfection and frustration without expecting that other people are there primarily to provide instant happiness and [...]
SEMINARS ON THE COVID-19 SITUATION— SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS Ernesto Vasquez, MD May 13, 2021 Since September 2020, I have given 4 seminars on the covid-19 situation at NCC meetings. The last one took place on May 10, 2021. That seminar organizes more clearly the information in the previous ones, and is available at the [...]
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The poem below by Dielle Ciesco (https://dielleciesco.com/) anticipates some of the moral and ethical questions that hopefully will arise during the NCC seminar I will present on Monday May 10, 2021. As she suggests, these are questions which ‘Now is a good time to ask’! Ernesto Vasquez, MD Who would you be? A lot [...]
In the short piece below, Professor Sinead Murphy brilliantly ex-presses, in part, why I fret so much about the so-called covid measures. - Ernesto Vasquez, MD THE CAPTURE OF GOODNESS Goodness’ is not the word I wanted to use in this article. But ‘ethics’ sounded too abstract, ‘morality’ too rule-bound, ‘virtue’ too archaic, and [...]
Pennies are so devalued in our country that most people won't even pick them up if they see one lying on the ground. They get dirty and are often overlooked. The same is often true of the homeless. They are all around us on street corners and under bridges, but most people pass them [...]
SELF RELIANCE VS. DEPENDENCE ON GOD A very dear friend of mine said to me the other day, “God won't give me more than I can handle.” And because I love her and we have that kind of relationship where we can reprove one another, I challenged her on the thinking behind that statement. [...]
Understanding Why the Covid-19 Narrative is Psychologically Traumatizing Ernesto Vasquez, MD November 11, 2020 In my NCC seminar a couple of days ago, I offered an analysis of the covid-19 narrative as having imposed a severely stressful and psychologically traumatizing form of global captivity for humankind. I am writing this post to provide some [...]
