Time

In a debate with his elder siblings about the existence of Santa Claus, my grandson, then 5 years old, triumphantly ended the argument with just two words: “Everything exists!” Was he right? Ju... Read more

Either a ‘thing’ (res), an ‘actual entity’ (per Whitehead), is – or it is not. Take ‘A’, for example. ‘A’ is a thing (or event). It either exists or it does not. Read more

In 2012, renowned physicist and cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss, published A Universe from Nothing. The purpose of the book was to debunk the idea that some sort of transcendent entity (e.g. Read more

Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Read more

“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Read more

Now-a-days, most folks will tell you that they don’t believe in “life after death”…and that’s a good thing because the phrase itself is an oxymoron. Read more

These are the final 4 words of the Lord’s Prayer (Mt. Read more

Being Good Beauty            Truth             Justice Love Presence Every important branch of philosophy focuses on one or more of these seven words and/or on the relations... Read more

It’s been called, “the greatest story ever told”, The Bible. Read more

The British philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, is generally considered the ‘father of process philosophy’. Read more

“Love is patient, love is kind…It does not seek its own interests... It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Read more

“Anamnesis”; it’s a mouthful…but a very important mouthful. Read more

(This essay is dedicated to Ralph Pred, mentor and friend, who taught me almost everything I know and who would probably disagree with almost everything in this essay. Thank you, Ralph. Read more

According to a popular conception of intellectual history, mythology is characteristic of human pre-history. Read more

The fall of 2016 saw a new comedy series, This is Us, added to the NBC line-up. Read more

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

Relax. This isn’t an article about the practice of Kundalini Yoga. (Even I know my limits. Read more

You’re familiar with the Problem of Evil. It is an argument often advanced against the existence of God. Read more

“Those who go forth weeping, carrying sacks of seed, Will return with cries of joy, carrying their bundled sheaves. Read more

One morning, I was standing on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, looking across to Philadelphia. Read more

Theology 101 is comprehensive…but not complete. Questions remain to be answered, themes need to be further developed. Read more

The Old Testament Book of Psalms consists of 150 Psalms, divided into 5 ‘books’. The last 5 Psalms of the final book (Psalms 146 – 150) constitute the climax of the entire work. Read more

When I was growing up, Bertrand Russell’s essay, Why I am not a Christian, created a lot of buzz. Read more

Lewis Carroll’s second novel about his young heroine, Alice (you know Alice…of Wonderland fame), is titled Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Read more

There is an ancient story of an Emperor who encountered a philosopher on the road. Read more

For Roman Catholics and many other Christians, the defining statement of religious doctrine is the Nicene Creed. Adopted by the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Read more

Although five books of the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to the apostle John, modern scholarship has identified two of these works as most likely bearing John’s direct imprint: Th... Read more

"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

Did you ever say to yourself, “If only I had known then what I know now?” Say it’s Tuesday night and you have an English test coming up Wednesday morning. Read more

“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

“Great bulk, huge mass, thesaurus; Ecbatan, the clock ticks and fades out The bride awaiting the god’s touch; Ecbatan, City of patterned streets; again the vision:” – Ezra Pound, Canto V ... Read more

The Beatles’ iconic 1968 film, Yellow Submarine, is more than meets the eye. Not that the eye…or ear…is ever starved for stimulation in this psychedelic romp. Read more

It’s 1920. The glow of the Russian Revolution is everywhere and dialectical materialism is the philosophy de jour. Every aspect of life in Russian society is undergoing radical transformation. Read more

If you want to understand what’s special about the Christian world view, travel to London and visit St. Paul’s Cathedral. Read more

“I love you,” perhaps the most famous phrase in all of human speech. But what does it mean? I love many things: my wife and children, a fine bottle of wine, foie gras, London, to name a very few. Read more

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

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

When we examine every bit of objective evidence we have about the world we live in, we find that the dimension of time is continuous (at least down to the Planck scale). Read more

From the dawn of philosophy, thinkers have speculated that the world of space & time, matter & energy, objects & sense perceptions, the world in which we seem to live, may not be the only ... Read more