As I write this, the world is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Life has been deeply altered and one wonders if things will ever...

Most of us are familiar with the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9). Superficially, its meaning seems obvious. A...

World What do we mean when we talk about ‘the world’? We don’t just mean the universe, the cosmos or the planet Earth. We mean the world...

Following any catastrophe – a tsunami in the Pacific, a mass shooting at a shopping mall…or the death of a young child – you’re certain...

“So, three things remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor. 13:13) ———- “Our Father who art in heaven,...

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Written by English folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny, this late ‘60s anthem was popularized by...

The terms, ‘communism’ and ‘socialism’ are often used interchangeably. Yet in some respects, they are more like antonyms than synonyms. ...

In a debate with his elder siblings about the existence of Santa Claus, my grandson, then 5 years old, triumphantly ended the argument...

When you think of cosmos, do you think of it as something singular or something plural? Is it ‘one’ or ‘many’? Is it an ‘organism’ with...

Around 535 BC, a group of Greek settlers founded a colony on the west coast of Italy, just south of the modern city of Napoli (Naples)....

Either a ‘thing’ (res), an ‘actual entity’ (per Whitehead), is – or it is not. Take ‘A’, for example. ‘A’ is a thing (or event). It...

In 2012, renowned physicist and cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss, published A Universe from Nothing. The purpose of the book was to debunk...

(Note to high school and college students: If you are surfing the web, looking for an essay to plagiarize, I don’t recommend this one…at...

From the very beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, powerful forces were arrayed against him and his mission (Luke 4: 14 – 30): “He came...

“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the...

Being Good Beauty            Truth             Justice Love Presence Every important branch of philosophy focuses on one or more of these...

It’s been called, “the greatest story ever told”, The Bible. But what is that story? “The earth was without form or shape, with darkness...

There are 64 books in the New American edition of the Holy Bible. One of these books is Psalms. The Book of Psalms consists of 150 psalms...

“Anamnesis”; it’s a mouthful…but a very important mouthful. It refers to the idea that some (or all) memories are not just passive...

(This essay is dedicated to Ralph Pred, mentor and friend, who taught me almost everything I know and who would probably disagree with...