Sublime

I would contend that the frontal attack was on the lifetime-pace of the suburban good life. But to overthrow this suburban sense of the good life, you needed to discredit the timekeepers themselves. So march on Washington they did. They shouted that the timekeepers of the present, who required a lifetime of loyalty and commitment, were restricting.

Most people who are obese have an underlying food addiction, which is not adequately addressed with surgery alone. Few people who undergo these surgeries get the behavioral and psychological interventions they need to help them change their eating habits. Hence many of them resume eating in unhealthy ways, expand their now smaller stomachs, and end

Eternal salvation is not a goal worthy of our aspirations and it cannot even in principle redeem any forms of social injustice, since it would eliminate our freedom and any sense of who we are.

pastors, I believe, the tattoo is a signal that she rejects the image of the pastor as polite and mannered. In its own way, this reveals (quite tacitly and quietly) that the link between the politeness and properness of how you live and divine action has been cut, and perhaps for good reason.

Dorian Deshauer, a psychiatrist and historian at the University of Toronto, told me, “Once you abandon the idea of the personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.”

Studies show that people who see mental illness as biological or genetic are less likely to blame mental conditions on weak character or to respond in punitive ways, but they are more likely to see a person’s illness as out of her control, alienating, and dangerous.