The Gospel of the Little Prince
This is an “encore” edition of Skeptical Faith. Hopefully, a new essay will be available next week. Attention all those concerned only with “matters of great consequence:” Is it possible ...
When Is It Politics and Not Religion?
A recent article in the New York Times reports on Gustavo García-Siller, the Catholic archbishop of San Antonio, TX, and his advocacy for gun control in a state where “guns ...
Get-R-Done
In the midst of a recent heat wave, my wife, Amparo, and I chose to paint our tool shed in the back yard. Ill-conceived timing maybe, but for various reasons, ...
The Bugaboo of Our Own Limitations
I don’t fly often but I was recently on a flight when a man in front of me on the boarding bridge got my attention. I had notice him earlier ...
Work Another Substitute for Religion?
National Public Radio recently aired an interesting interview with Carolyn Chen, sociologist and professor of ethnic studies at University of California at Berkeley. She’s the author of “Work Pray Code: ...
What Do We Expect from Religion?
Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and promoter of a kind of meditation called centering prayer, asks this question in one of his videos on YouTube. Ancient Israel’s expectation, says Keating, ...