Below is a collection of Dr. McGlaughlin’s most recent observations (500+). Most of these observations are made throughout the course of everyday life, captured by dictation, and added to FlintsNotes.com. You can read more about the observation capture process here. The content here changes 5 days a week, so be sure to check back often. Also, feel free to leave a comment in the comments section of each observation.

April 21, 2010

On the Nature of Spiritual Ambition

I just finished reading the biography of Saint Ignatius. I find it interesting that Saint Ignatius started out with such significant ambition. It was the same […]
April 14, 2010

On Mary Augusta Arnold, and the Novel as a Theological Impartation

Most people are not familiar with the name Mary Augusta Arnold, but she was a successful novelist in the early 19th century. One of her books, […]
April 13, 2010

On the Notion that Theology Informs Philosophy

It would seem that theology has lost its appeal to the average person, but it also seems that philosophy has not. Books on philosophy proliferate today. […]
April 12, 2010

On How My Home Has Rescued Me

I think we underestimate the importance of home and family. I think it’s particularly important for the man who lives a life of reflection. After hours […]
April 9, 2010

On Theology “For” rather than “Of”

What does it mean to develop a “theology for the entrepreneur”? While the term “theology” itself needs defining, we might accept some of the more standard […]
April 1, 2010

On the Church’s Failure to Provide a Theological Informed Conception of Good Business

We live mainly by forms and patterns and if the forms are bad, we live badly’ . So warns Wallace Stegner, the Pulitzer Prize winning storyteller […]
March 30, 2010

On the Danger of Unifying the Physical and the Spiritual

In the connection between the physical and the spiritual, I have said that the two must be unified. They should be synonymous, but it is important […]