Wil Darcangelo

What is the learning curve of freedom and power? I ask this because that's the question at the root of Western civilization and the single most important determining factor in our collective future.

"We are supposed to disrupt old patterns of behavior, often behaviors which do not serve us. What would it mean to disrupt those?"

In my column last week on the metaphor of what happens when the kids are given control of the candy store and the future it may portend for us all, it got me thinking about what my predictions migh…

What is church for? Why do we go? Of course, fewer and fewer people go to church all the time, so these questions might feel moot to most people.

When we get a chiropractic adjustment, the bones may love it, but the muscles sure don't. They fight, pull, and push to put the bones back where they were.

When we get a chiropractic adjustment, the bones may love it, but the muscles sure don’t. They fight, pull, and push to put the bones back where they were. They want to make everything like i…

As a 14 year old, I went on a large hiking trip in the Sangre de Cristo mountains in New Mexico.

As this month is International LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, it's doubly hard not to notice the extra layer of inflammatory and homophobic rhetoric being slung like monkey's poop against the wall in the hope that something will stick.

It's easy to see examples of people making big changes in the world. People we see as being more powerful or influential than we are instigating change or instilling comfort. Most of us feel pretty ineffectual at accomplishing the act of making a difference.

They say don't look a gift horse in the mouth. It's an interesting little maxim, mostly about the inspection of teeth. Horses' teeth give away their age. They become longer and more numerous the older they get. If someone gives you a horse, don't look at their teeth right in front of the giver as if to question the value of their gift. The direct advice being given here is about offering courtesy, gratitude, and respect toward the giver and not to question the value of their generosity. But the implication is deeper than merely avoiding rudeness.