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A familiar trope at this time of year is the new year’s resolution. The idea of freeing ourselves from habits we would rather not carry...

Author and scientist Arthur C. Clarke famously observed that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” We...

On this first post of the new year, I wanted to write about a topic that we are all familiar with, though may not practice often;...

As we enter the final year of the decade and a time of year that many people reflect on changes they wish to make to improve their lives...

With the holidays upon us I have been thinking a good deal about gratitude. What does it really mean to be thankful for something or...

Having written recently about moral authority and values, I was quite interested to read a study that was just published in the American...

Maybe you have heard this expression. It is usually offered up by someone trying to navigate a challenge to their religious principles...

Growing up, the values of friendship and loyalty I came to admire as an adult were nurtured by both personal experience and the stories I...

Winston Churchill described those periods of his life when he experienced dark moods as the arrival of the “Black Dog”. Apparently, the...

Sicily, I learned, is a land of churches and granita. I don’t mean to be simplistic, perhaps you were expecting a darker, more sinister...

An article reviewing a new book by Caltech professor, Sean Carroll, got me thinking about a topic I suspect many of us have entertained...

If you haven’t seen the television series referred to in the title of this post, I want to commend it to you for two reasons. There is...

I have had some misgivings that this post might raise a few eyebrows but having never learned to avoid the defense of principle I am...

The great Christian apologetics writer, C.S. Lewis wrote what I consider the definitive text on this subject. I couldn’t possibly cover...

Lately I’ve been thinking a good deal about what sows the seeds of unhappiness and other human afflictions. I don’t claim to have a...

Now here is a word most of us may never use or even know, Qualia. I stumbled on it the other day and learned that it is the subjective...

In Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Fall, the central character, Dodge, refers to the miasma of the Internet as the Din. It is a wonderfully...

Recently I spent a few evenings watching a retrospective about the Apollo 11 mission. Seeing the events unfold, with the benefit of the...

Most of us, I suspect, have been trying to make sense of the increasing spasms of violence that have occurred in our country. The public...

You may think that this post has something to do with the theological arguments surrounding free will, predestination or related matters....