Are Faith and Reason Compatible?
There’s a famous quote from Tertullian, one of the earliest Christian thinkers, about the relationship between faith and reason. (“Reason” being rationality or critical thinking.) You may not have heard ...
All or Nothing?
I’m a life-long believer, born and raised a Catholic and having almost all of my formal education provided by church-related institutions. But my journey along the road of faith has ...
A Pivotal Choice
“I asked AI for a prayer before dinner. It thanked the cloud.” “The church livestream added AI captions. “Prince of Peace” became “prints of peas.” These are jokes ChatGPT tells ...
An Antidote to Absurdity?
Back when I was studying philosophy, we briefly considered the writings of Albert Camus (1913-1960), a French Algerian novelist, essayist, playwright, and moral philosopher. A leading voice of mid-20th-century humanism, ...
The False or True Self
When writing about this subject I know I’m at risk of engaging in amateur psychology. Yes, the theme is evident in the writings of psychologists like Karl Jung and Viktor ...
Who Cares?
I haven’t recently written about the care of our earth because every time I do, I can almost feel the collective yawn. Data on my readership on Blogger always takes ...