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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....

Among the many sins accounted by various faiths, including the so-called seven deadly sins, I know of none that include apathy. As close...

Philosophers, Theologians, Psychologists, and others occupied with thinking about the human condition have speculated on the nature and...

Can the future be known; is it possible that there are savants who possess the power of prophecy? Mythological, historical and religious...

The emergence of the written word, surely one of humanity’s greatest inventions, gave rise to the need for a convenient way to store and...

For some time now I have wanted to write about patriotism and how love of one’s country is viewed today. The recent celebration of...

A letter on the editorial page of our local newspaper reminded me that it is all too easy to see the world through the narrow aperture of...

There have been a number of occasions in my life where I can say that I felt as if I was staring into the abyss. The way forward was...