Adventures in Doubt
It’s rather fashionable to be agnostic nowadays. The modern project of finding indubitable certitudes on which to base my life is said to have collapsed; Descartes’ adventures in doubt, however, […]
Category Archives: On Anything and Everything
Surprised by Empathy
This past week the world caught its breath. Throughout the Arab world, masses took the streets, and in Egypt the protest movement achieved epic proportions. Thousands if not millions of […]
On the Meaning of Freedom?
Much gets said these days about liberty and freedom across the political spectrum. At the heart of talk about “inalienable rights” is usually the notion of freedom, and in the contemporary […]
Girls and Women
A recent New York Times piece, Cultural Studies: The Playground Gets Even Tougher, examines an increasing trend toward bullying among very young girls: kindergarteners and first-graders. The article looks at, among […]
A Bit More on Christian Sex
Why should Madi Simpson have all the fun?! I loved her article on sex last week, and decided to build on it by discussing another very common and completely understandable […]
On Ordinary, Everyday Experience
My family and I have been busy lately. (I suppose that is true for many if not most families, and now that I think about it, the word “lately” in […]
The Secret
Maybe it was a simple curiosity which led me to watch a movie entitled The Secret, a few days ago. The arresting trailer had promised to unveil the secret that […]
The Purpose of Fear?
Fear can be scarier when it is shared. I can remember several moments in the past few years where I’ve felt a palpable shared sense of fear, first in the […]
Burn a Koran Day
Christians have done wrong, stupid, and shameful things.
The Last Generation on Earth?
He suffers, like we all do, but a meaningful life is not a life without pain. Suffering is part of life.
