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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...

Talking with a friend the other day, the subject of happiness occupied both our thoughts. My friend was deeply concerned about a loved...

Having recently completed a change of residence with all of the attendant challenges, not least of which was a brief sense of...

The imminent occasion of what will be the 20th move in my adult life set me thinking about both the impermanence of what we call home,...

The conflation of scripture and psychology would seem to be an oxymoron. Religion after all concerns itself with matters of faith, by...

Recently I wrote about denial, the attitude, not the river. Today I would like to take up the subject of avoidance, a trait with which I...

Have you ever felt helpless? I know I have, and right at this moment I am again, as I contemplate what, if anything I might do to...