Welcome to TOS Weekly!
Achieving a happy, fulfilling life depends on recognizing that your values, choices, and actions are within your control. This week, Maddox Locher details how he took charge of his thinking and life choices in “How I Renounced Religion and Embraced a Life of Reason” (adapted from his talk at LevelUp 2025). Also, I interview life coach Daria Ermolenko about how to “get in the driving seat of your life” by discovering and understanding the nature and causes of your emotions.
I hope you enjoy this week’s articles,
Thomas F. Walker
Managing Editor
New This Week
How I Renounced Religion and Embraced a Life of Reason
Religion taught me how to lie before I knew what honesty is.
Getting in the Driver’s Seat of Your Life: An Interview with Life Coach Daria Ermolenko
In this discussion, life coach Daria Ermolenko describes her approach to coaching, which is based on reason, free will, and examining one’s ideas, feelings, and premises.
From the Archive
Nine Inspiring Poems about the Future
Featuring works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
This Week’s Anniversaries
The Genius of James Madison
On September 23, 1789, the U.S. Congress approved a series of amendments guaranteeing specific freedoms to all Americans. Here’s to the genius who made the Bill of Rights possible: James Madison.
Dave Kopel: Bill of Rights Safeguards “Pre-Existing Human Rights”
The Bill of Rights does not grant government permissions to people; rather, it recognizes and protects people’s rights that are antecedent to government.
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