“What if you’re wrong?”
A girl asked atheist Richard Dawkins one day, “What if you’re wrong?” In typical deprecating fashion, Dawkins turned the question back to the girl, “But what if you are wrong?” […]
Author Archives: René Breuel
Should I marry this person?
Legend goes – no one is sure whether it is true or not – that once a beautiful dancer suggested to George Bernard Shaw that they should have a child together. […]
Hope for the mixed-motived
What do you want? You get what you want, often. Proponents of positive thinking would claim that you get what you want always, although unrequited loves and unwon lottery tickets […]
The Death of Death
With words that inspired a generation – and that animated a core moment of the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics – the Beatles’ most enduring song set people’s hearts aglow with […]
Marriage is a call to transformation
This past month I read a fascinating book on marriage. It was the sort of pleasurable, impulsive reading you do not because you have to but because that’s the book […]
The Grand Inquisitor
In one of the most electrifying chapters of all of world literature, Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky imagines an unexpected arrival of Jesus Christ in Seville, Spain, during the height of […]
“Love your neighbour as your neighbour loves you”
“Love your neighbour as your neighbour loves you.”[1] Freud paraphrases Jesus’ famous words with his own, rather peppery, twist. Jesus taught that my love for others should be as boundless as my love […]
Evolution explains everything
Does evolution explains you and me? Our thoughts, desires and beliefs? Why we appreciate poetry and disdain injustice? For the past decades, many scientists have affirmed so, extrapolating an overarching, […]
Atheist honesty
John Gray has provided a refreshing critique of contemporary atheism in a recent essay for The Guardian entitled What scares the new atheists. His lucid analysis has struck me mostly […]
Emerging into Adult Faith
[This month Patheos hosts a fascinating conversation on life’s rites of passage. Here’s my contribution to it.] The sun shines. The lake glimmers. This summer, like summers past, an adult […]
Wondering Fair 