Category: Philosophy
Baby, We Were Born to Fail
After dropping out of school when failing to complete a senior art thesis in my first year at Antioch College, I needed some direction in my life. Seeking the opposite of my previously unstructured li... Read More
A theological perspective on (a)theism in formation
State of formation… indeed! As long as we are, we are in a state of formation. Among those ancient sages (who remain with us in various states of formation) are Heraclitus and Siddhartha the Buddha,... Read More
To be, or not to be… an atheist
Labels are cumbersome. To self-identify as an atheist, or a Jew, or a Hindu, or a Muslim, and so on, requires that you accept ownership of all that is attached to that label. It is wholly irrelevant w... Read More
Let’s Become a New Creation Together
With every fiber of my being I believe what the Great American Poet, Walt Whitman said in his Song of Myself: “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” and what the cosmologist Brian S... Read More
Civil Religion and The Powers That Be
Popularly known as the “Muslim Gandhi,” Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) led hundreds of thousands of Pashtuns in nonviolent resistance to the oppressive British colonizers in India, suffering great... Read More
Rattling the (Rib)Cage
A quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald that I’ve been obsessed with lately: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ... Read More- 34 of 34
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