We have a tendency—perhaps because we are around only so briefly—to characterize history in “ages”; time Before Christ, or the Dark Ages, the Enlightenment, The Modern Era. There were indeed,…
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A month ago I posted the first part of this subject and expected to be writing a quite different second part. But sometimes your mind wanders off in a different…
We observe in the news with some frequency heart-lifting acts that are arguably inspired by pure altruism.* These are usually situations that are highly localized and dramatic. We see first…
A VIRAL RECKONING AND A LINGERING BERNIE I happen to be one of those people who do not believe that everything that happens happens for a reason. But I do…
Lost passage from Genesis: Gen 2.0: And God felt that his computer had crashed when the humans he had created from his animation program had gone all crazy killing one…
We ain’t done yet. If we manage to avoid being swept away by an economic tsunami (Part 1) of our own making, or by a nuclear holocaust (Part Deux), much…
Could we be on the edge of an amazing convergence of faith and reason; one that we never could have expected? Could Al Gore, the new, if second, environmentalist Nobel…