Posted on January 1, 2018
IMMORTALITY OR ETERNITYEschatology • Time
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
Posted on November 12, 2017
DELIVER US FROM EVILBeing • Eschatology • God • Prayer • Time
These are the final 4 words of the Lord’s Prayer (Mt. Read more
Posted on October 15, 2017
SEVEN WORDSAnaximander • Being • Culture • God • Time
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
Posted on September 9, 2017
THE OTHER BIBLEGod • Time
It’s been called, “the greatest story ever told”, The Bible. Read more
Posted on July 26, 2017
PROCESS THEOLOGYBeing • Existentialism • God • Time • Trinity • Whitehead
The British philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, is generally considered the ‘father of process philosophy’. Read more
Posted on April 29, 2017
FAITH HOPE LOVEBeing • Existentialism • God • John & Paul • Time • Whitehead
“Love is patient, love is kind…It does not seek its own interests, it…rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Read more
Posted on March 28, 2017
THE ONE AND THE MANYBeing • Eschatology • God • Time • Trinity
(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
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 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 April 17, 2016
The PROBLEM OF GOODBeing • God • Time • Whitehead
You’re familiar with the Problem of Evil. It is an argument often advanced against the existence of God. Read more
Posted on December 5, 2015
TIME OVERTHROWNTime
One morning, I was standing on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, looking across to Philadelphia. Read more
Posted on November 10, 2015
THEOLOGY 101Anaximander • Eschatology • Existentialism • Genesis • God • Parmenides • Time • Trinity • Whitehead
Theology 101 is comprehensive…but not complete. Questions remain to be answered, themes need to be further developed. 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 May 27, 2015
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASSCulture • Time
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
Posted on February 26, 2015
TWO FACED GODGod • Time
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
Posted on January 11, 2015
ANAXIMANDER, MARTIN & JOHNAnaximander • Existentialism • Genesis • John & Paul • Time
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
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 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 June 7, 2013
Science & The Yellow SubmarineTime • Yellow Submarine
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
Posted on November 25, 2012
THE REALISTIC MANIFESTOBeing • Culture • Heraclitus • Politics • Time
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
Posted on November 25, 2012
HENRY MOORE AT ST. PAUL'SBeing • Christ • Culture • Eschatology • God • Time
If you want to understand what’s special about the Christian world view, travel to London and visit St. Paul’s Cathedral. Read more
Posted on November 25, 2012
LOVE...ACTUALLY!*Being • Existentialism • Time • Trinity
“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
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
Posted on August 27, 2011
DOES "GOD" MAKE SENSE?Anaximander • God • Time
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
Posted on June 27, 2011
KANDINSKY...AND THE OTHER WORLDCulture • Parmenides • Time
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