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Matters of Truth

November 14, 2016by Ryan Leave a comment

The most boring question you can ask of any religion is whether it is true. So says Alain de Botton, philosopher, writer, and founder of an organization called “The School […]

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Pastel Dreams and Apartheid

November 5, 2015by Dave Benson 1 Comment

Desmond Tutu has a little children’s book called God’s Dream.[1] In soft pastel paintings of kids from all nations, we discover that God dreams about people sharing and caring, “that […]

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Making a Difference, The Heart of Faith

Where in the World is God?

September 28, 2015by Ryan

It was a morning soaked in pain. Three stories, three conversations, three lives turned upside down and inside out. A death, a dying, and a falling apart. And through it […]

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Tough Questions

Who Has Truth?

September 10, 2015by Ben 2 Comments

Truth: who has it?  Anyone with a basic philosophical awareness realizes that this question is not a simple one.  How is “truth” to be defined?  In what sense can a […]

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On Anything and Everything

Twisted Leadership

June 22, 2015by Madi Simpson Leave a comment

If humility is a desirable quality in leaders, why do so many leadership authors insist on bragging? I went through the contents page of one such book recently and discovered […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice

An Evolutionary Tale of Riders and Elephants

April 9, 2015by Paul McClure Leave a comment

A helpful, colorful metaphor is something of a rarity in academic writing. Especially in the halls of science, where scholars across disciplines often invoke specialized concepts and technical jargon, the […]

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Tough Questions

Does Art Speak?

January 20, 2014by René Breuel 3 Comments

Is a postscript to Lolita, a defensive Vladimir Nabokov responds to criticisms leveled at his novel about a man who seduces a 12-year-old girl. He distinguishes his novel from pornographic literature. He […]

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On Anything and Everything

Marilyn Monroe’s Dream

March 15, 2013by René Breuel 6 Comments

Marilyn Monroe had a disturbing dream in 1955. She recollects in fragmented sentences how her psychoanalyst and her acting teacher had her in an operation room, and started to open […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

What’s Real?

December 13, 2012by profdrs Leave a comment

Q: I feel like I’m submerged in a flood of unreal messaging, a swirling, disorienting tide of advertising, political propaganda, and mass entertainment media. Fashions, fads, fanaticisms…What’s real? How can […]

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Tough Questions

A Beautiful Life

November 28, 2011by Ryan 1 Comment

What if I’m wrong? Whatever space we happen to inhabit on the worldview continuum, this is a question that is bound to occur to all of us.  As human beings […]

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