religion

When “2001, A Space Odyssey,” came out in 1968, I was in the 10th grade at a small Catholic high school in Michigan. Like many boys of my generation, I…

As I write, Christianity is commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, which purportedly took place between noon and 3 pm on Good Friday before he physically resurrected from the…

Below my feet, after days of heavy rain, the little creek on the periphery of town is like a gray-green animal surging ferociously and relentlessly forward. Above my head, as…

Are there beings in another dimension of consciousness, freed from thought, space and time? In other words, do the gods actually exist, and if so, how did they come into…

Are you a Hobbesian or a Rousseauian? Most people’s core worldview falls into one philosophical camp or the other, which usually determines where we fall on the political spectrum.

Never be a part of anything when you have to convince yourself of it, to make it all seem true or ok.

Secular believers mistakenly mix religion and politics. They say ridiculous things like: “Democracy is the only system built on respect for the infinite dignity of each individual man and woman,…

If the last year has demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the chaos of belief, irrationality and tribalism. But…