Rev'd Dr. Sam Pascoe

I just returned from being with about 100 men on a retreat in South Carolina. These were men of faith, ranging in age from late 20’s to...

“James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, says that even...

Speaking of plastic . . . the question “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is one worth asking. Of course, it takes some smarts to ask and...

For the first 60 years of my life, the word “plastic” was almost exclusively a noun. Plastic was a “thing” used to make thousands of...

Funny how the mind works. I spent the last two weeks moving from our home for the last 20+ years in Florida back to our native Northern...

Perhaps you saw the news on the BBC that the Illinois State House has erected a monument to Satan for the holidays. (See headline...

Merry Christmas Ever wonder why we say “Merry” Christmas and “Happy” New Year? Me, too. Why not “Happy” Christmas and “Merry” New Year?...

Other than fame, wealth, power, prestige, and popularity, what do the following people have in common? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sheryl...

Kate Julian is Senior Editor at the Atlantic Monthly. In New York Times’ columnist Ross Douthat’s words, her cover story in the December...

On November 22, 2018, Ben Bryant of the BBC asked the question, “What happens when you make teenagers abstain from alcohol, drugs and...

In our previous three blogs we looked at the three parts of the human brain: 1. The Amygdala, or reptilian part of the brain, the part of...

This is the third blog in a series on the Tripartite Brain. In the previous blogs, we looked at the more primitive parts of the brain,...

This is the second blog in a series on the Tripartite Brain. In the previous blog, we looked at the most primitive part of the brain, the...

In the next several blogs, I hope to offer a hopefully helpful oversimplification of a very complex and only recently understood aspect...

Defending Against Sudden Urges to Act Out In our practice working with Sex and Love Addicts, clients often ask us how to defend against...

In our previous blog post, we were introduced to what philosopher Soren Kierkegaard dubbed the “Knight of Infinite Resignation.”...

“Infinite Resignation” and the Five P’s When a chess player knows he is beaten, he lays down his king, and admits defeat, it is said “He...

I’m not much of a surfer. Tried it once. Fell over a lot. Looked pretty foolish. Gave up. I’m more familiar with what we in Addiction...

Those of us in the addiction community can look back to our ninth grade English class for wisdom and inspiration. It was then that many...

“The Sum of Somes” There is an old saying: “The three things a person needs to be content are Someone to Love, Something to Do, and...