Too Little, Too Late?
When I was in Beijing, my tutor was a young lady who was one day younger than my son which, at that time, made her 20 years old. She was… Read more »
Category: Thoughts in Progress
Getting it Wrong
I heard something that made sense to me on a podcast this morning. It was from a man who said he grew up in a strict conservative Southern Baptist church… Read more »
Outpacing the Classics
On a whim, I decided to revisit Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. I’m into the second book now — Foundation and Empire — and while I like it just fine, it’s… Read more »
Spiritual[real]ity
I’ve mentioned here before one of the basic facts of our existence – we are spiritual beings. It all boils down to our desire for meaning. No one goes through… Read more »
Not that Funny
One of my favorite lines in the movie Jurassic Park comes from Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm character. While debating John Hammond about the ethics of creating dinosaurs, he said,… Read more »
Well Worth the Try
I normally resolve to stay out of the political fray…and don’t worry, I still am here…but Ross Douthat often catches my eye as a reasonable moderate writer for the New… Read more »
Let’s not go there…
I’ve been doing a bit of research lately, and I’ve come across an author and university professor who’s written a lot on the topic into which I am looking. Thinking… Read more »
Don’t read the comments…
I heard an obvious observation in a podcast to which I was listening yesterday. Paraphrasing and adding my own perspective here: where before if you saw or heard something with… Read more »
You can’t argue with that.
“How difficult it is in the social media world to get a real argument going. Why? Because people have denied the objectivity of truth and values, so what’s there to… Read more »
The honorable endeavor…
I came across Bishop Robert Barron today and decided to listen to some of his work. In the piece, “Knocking Holes in the Buffered Self,” he said something right at… Read more »