Posted on February 16, 2017
MYTHOLOGY TODAYCulture • Science • Time
According to a popular conception of intellectual history, mythology is characteristic of human pre-history. Read more
Posted on November 14, 2016
THIS IS USCulture • Science • Time
The fall of 2016 saw a new comedy series, This is Us, added to the NBC line-up. Read more
Posted on October 2, 2016
THEOLOGY OF ENTANGLEMENTGod • Science
What is the relationship between God and the world, between the Kingdom of Heaven and the material universe?
Ultimately, this one question lies at the foundation of most of our great theological de... Read more
Posted on August 5, 2016
EDUCATING CHRISTIANSChrist • Culture • John & Paul • Science • Time • Trinity
We are good parents. From infancy we teach our children ‘the facts of life’ –how the world came to be the way it is and how it works. We certainly mean well. But do we do well? Let's see. Read more
Posted on June 21, 2015
WHY I AM NOT A DETERMINISTScience • Time
When I was growing up, Bertrand Russell’s essay, Why I am not a Christian, created a lot of buzz. Read more
Posted on April 26, 2015
QUARK SOUPFor Kids • Science
Do you like riddles? Try this one:
Once, more than 13 billion years ago, I filled the entire universe…but I lasted less than a second. Since then, I never existed again…until 2010. Read more
Posted on December 20, 2014
DANTE & THE YELLOW SUBMARINEAnaximander • Being • Science • Time • Whitehead • Yellow Submarine
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell of that wood, savage and harsh and dense... Read more
Posted on September 2, 2014
ROBERT FROST – QUANTUM MECHANICChrist • Culture • Eschatology • Existentialism • Science
Robert Frost’s 1916 poem, The Road Not Taken, appears to be a comment on existential angst and the human condition; and on one level it is no doubt just exactly that. Read more
Posted on July 28, 2014
LEGO & BELL'SCulture • Science
It begins as a typical children’s cartoon movie: a struggle between good and evil, mildly interesting characters trying to overcome personal insecurities to ‘be all that they can be’, a love tri... Read more
Posted on July 2, 2014
THE LEGO MOVIE written by David CowlesCulture • For Kids • Science
(Note: Toward the end of the movie, Finn explains to his dad that Legos are for kids ages 8 to 14. It says so on the box. But Dad says, “That’s just a suggestion!” Same here. Read more
Posted on May 26, 2014
GENESIS WINS NOBEL PRIZE! written by David CowlesGenesis • Science • Time
“REUTERS – The Nobel Committee in Olso has just announced that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded, posthumously, to the authors of the Book of Genesis for their groundbreaking c... Read more
Posted on May 20, 2013
TOPOLOGY OF THEOLOGYEschatology • God • Parmenides • Science • Trinity
At least since the Enlightenment, Westerners have been looking at the world in a very particular way. Read more
Posted on March 23, 2013
ESCHATON REVISTEDEschatology • Parmenides • Science
Eschatology is traditionally defined as the study of the four last things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Read more
Posted on January 2, 2013
THE MANY WORLDS INTERPRETATION OF NOHCulture • Eschatology • Heraclitus • Pound & Joyce • Science
"You do not dip twice in the river/Beneath the same tree's shadow/Without bonds in some other life."
Heraclitus? No. Read more
Posted on April 9, 2012
THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF TIMEAnaximander • Genesis • Parmenides • Science • Time
In an earlier essay in this collection, The Perpendicular Present, we showed conclusively that the experiential Present has nothing whatsoever to do with the linear phenomenon we call “time”. Read more
Posted on April 8, 2012
THE PERPENDICULAR PRESENTScience • Time
At first glance, our lives seem to be strings of bead-like events. No sooner have we experienced one sensation, one thought, one feeling, one action then another takes its place. Read more