The language is English, but the theme is one that might be heard in Arabic, Farsi, Pashtoon, Urdu, Hebrew, or in a variety of other languages and dialects around the…
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RELIGION & METAPHYSICS
We humans tend to think of ourselves as an enlightened species. No question that we are different in some essential respects from the other species with whom we share out…
Everybody loves a good story. A good beginning, a middle and, especially, a good ending. It doesn’t matter if its non-fiction, or fiction, so long as it has that nice…
An essay about feeling better (or worse) in a 24-hour news cycle. Don’t take two aspirin and get a good night’s sleep; stay up and take something stronger—TV. I was…
Remember all those illustrations of Jesus and little kids? Jesus loved little kids and was always going on about how we should be innocent, like little kids. I certainly believed…
My non-theism is anything but static and settled. I don’t call myself an “atheist” because it coveys the notion of being against a supreme being. Since I, or anybody else…
It was the second time that the pool of Walter Bennet’s pee formed around the barely visible shoes of Sister Ignatius that I think I had my first thought that…
Warning: this is a rather philosophical piece. I tried to find ways to work some sex and violence into it to be in keeping with so much of today’s media,…
Note: This session the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing a case about the display of religious symbols, such as the cross, on public lands and property. Given the Establishmenrt…
Once, long ago, I considered going the way of St. Francis of Assisi or Ignatius Loyola, forsaking the trappings of a wealthy and privileged life (as if I really had…