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What Batman Can Teach Us about Career Change
Source: Wikipedia In Frank Miller’s classic, game-changing graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Bruce Wayne has entered his middle-age years, and his secret identity, Batman, has been retired...
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A Superhero’s Calling
Source: dccomics.com In two earlier posts, I described how Spider-Man and Batman can offer some career development life lessons to nonsuperheroes like us. The superhero-as-career-development-role-model...
View ArticleBeer Culture: I’m a Convert
As someone who didn’t touch alcohol until he was twenty-four, I’m an unlikely apologist for beer culture. But since moving to northern Colorado—the self-proclaimed “Napa Valley of Beer”–in 2005, my...
View ArticleIs Horror the Most Christian Film Genre?
by Bryan Dik I will admit to indulging in a horror film every once in a while. It is difficult to explain the draw, but the element of facing your fears likely has something to do with it....
View ArticleTime to Let It Go, Mike
by Bryan Dik Sports Illustrated celebrated Michael Jordan’s fiftieth birthday last week by slapping him on the cover a record fiftieth time. That’s a lot of prime coverage for a guy from a magazine...
View ArticleWhere Your Digital Stuff Goes When You Die
by Bryan Dik There was a time when I held the title “chief writer” for a regional music and arts magazine. The best part of the job was the free music; record labels looking to journalists for reviews...
View ArticleThis Assassination Brought to You by Demon Hunter
Buried in news reports earlier this month was a story about an interview in Esquire with the U.S. Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. According to the anonymous shooter, early in the Iraq...
View ArticleWhen Living Your Calling Means Obsessing Over Athletics Aesthetics
by Bryan Dik One of my guilty pleasures is Uni-Watch, a blog that revels in editorialized, obsessively detailed information about sports uniforms. As leisure interests go, uniform design is probably a...
View ArticleRutgers: This Week’s Exhibit A for Total Depravity
Unless you’ve continued your fast from media well beyond Lent, you’ve seen the video of just-fired Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice physically and verbally abusing his players—hurling basketballs at...
View ArticleDoes Winning Take Care of Everything?
Tiger Woods is usually in the news this time of year with April’s Masters tournament—golf’s biggest stage. In the last few years, the Woods’ story lines have focused on whether he’d ever be the...
View ArticleDoes Winning Take Care of Everything?
Tiger Woods is usually in the news this time of year with April’s Masters tournament—golf’s biggest stage. In the last few years, the Woods’ story lines have focused on whether he’d ever be the...
View ArticleAre There Really Generational Differences?
Last week I served on a Psychology Today-sponsored panel on generational differences in the workplace, a hot topic for which pop-psych resources abound. (With titles like “When Generations Collide” and...
View ArticleWhat “The Office” Can Teach Us About Love
In this final season of The Office (which airs its last episode Thursday night), it’s been heartening to see the show focus on the office romance that drew many of us in way back in season one: Jim...
View ArticleMacklemore and Materialism
Macklemore is not the first White hip-hop artist to become a fixture in the mainstream, but he’s probably the most socially conscious one. Not long ago I came across a link to the video for “Wings.”...
View ArticleHow Fantasy Baseball Changed My Life
Years ago, I made a commitment to myself never to join a fantasy league. Why? It’s pretty simple, really. I knew it’d open Pandora’s Box. I don’t do many things half-way, and I’ve seen countless...
View ArticleDo Bashful Evangelicals Turn People toward Atheism?
I read with interest a recent report in The Atlantic entitled Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity. The author, Larry Taunton, a Christian apologist and director of the...
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Bashful Evangelicals and Atheism, Part II
In a post last week, I referenced a recent Atlantic article that suggested Christians who avoid sharing their faith may inadvertently be turning people toward atheism. I have talked with many...
View ArticleHas the Tide Finally Turned on Native American Nicknames in Sports?
The use of offensive nicknames in sports has become increasingly distasteful to Americans in recent years, as more and more schools and teams at all levels have decided that offending any segment of...
View ArticleThe Transformative Power of The Exorcist, 40 years later
The Exorcist is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. As a tenth grader, I remember swallowing hard and white-knuckling the arms of my recliner as I watched Linda Blair’s chilling portrayal of Regan...
View ArticleWill an Algorithm Land You Your Next Job?
Just about anyone who has looked long and hard for a job can tell you how painful the process can be. Hours and hours are sunk into scouring job boards, circling endless employer displays at job...
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