When we feel the sublime, we connect with a warm and peaceful energy we love but don’t understand. Some call it God.

How "The Big Lebowski" teaches us to surrender our pain and let things go.

How Steve Lattimer inspired me to embrace my barbarian instincts, celebrate my masculinity, and find brotherhood.

Facing the election, take solace in knowing that you already live in the most peaceful, prosperous, and tolerant society in world history.

My pilgrimage to Verdun, France... 32 years in the making.  

J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic awakens the barbarian inside, reminding us to be heroes instead of victims.  

Wilfred Owen’s poetry gives me something I need most in modern life: to feel. While his bleak message reminds me to keep the faith.

Facing the mechanized horrors of World War I, some soldiers didn’t search for meaning, they created it.

How a dear friend reminds me to eat bad, drink good, and be merry.