Tell me: What is the Meaning of Life?
“Would you be interested in coming to give a short talk to a group of high school/university students?” The question came a while back and, as is my customary practice, I […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Can Science Discover Everything?
Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology, nonlinear physics, and astrobiology, has a new book out, reviewed yesterday on NPR. I have not yet read the book but it […]
Chewing on It
A few weeks after Easter, I am still chewing on it. Christianity flies or falls on the foundation of Jesus Christ’s resurrection. As the apostle Paul wrote, ‘if Christ has […]
We Are One
Every time it’s the same thing. The colors, the faces, the emotions, the song… The song that continues to play in our ears. There’s nothing we can do. A soccer […]
Don’t Waste Your Life
I don’t usually make time to sweat the big stuff, never mind the small stuff, but an unexpected email recently had the effect of shoving the enormous existential question, ‘what […]
“Are You Religious?”
I get asked this treacherous question a lot, and I know I’m not the only one. The question, in its variant forms, is not only asked to those who teach, […]
Shaped by the Future
A prisoner like Viktor Frankl learned quickly the signs that someone had given up. The suffering and humiliation ministered at World War II concentration camps took hold of a person’s […]
A Wedding in New Orleans
In the last year I’ve had the great fortune of attending two spectacular weddings in the city of New Orleans. This was a fun coincidence given that most of my […]
You be religious for me. Thanks but no thanks.
Vicarious religion. I’ve finally come across the term I have been looking for for years. Something inside me was whispering that one day it would arrive, that one day I […]
Wondering Fair 