Cow Tipping and the Blue Eyed Jesus: I grew up on a farm and was around cattle daily for about 20 years. The idea of cow tipping never occurred to me and evidently not to my uncles or older cousins. If you knew them and cow tipping was possible you’d know they would have done [...]
Some understand that the power of myth is not whether or not it is true but how it shapes one’s understanding of the world and our place within it. Colton Burpo (now 11) visited heaven for three hours at age three. These are the major points of Colton’s story about heaven (quoted in a review [...]
“Several years ago I visited a museum and saw the skeleton of a dinosaur. As I read the plaque, I learned only a handful of the bones were original, that the remainder had been fabricated based on a paleontologist’s extrapolation from the authentic bones. The dinosaur was massive and I was mystified at how such [...]
Santa Claus is a sacred story or myth that we share with our non-religious neighbors. And no one is particularly interested in the details of who Santa is or if he ever really existed. He is born into the lives of our children as an Absolute Truth.