The Power of Stories
I recently visited my nephew, Mark Pfeffer, in Anchorage, AK. Trained as an architect and a developer by profession, he and his wife, Desiree, have a beautiful house on the ...
Lessons from Space
I’ve been impressed by the new pictures of outer space taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. They capture a beauty that, given the cold, barren nature of space, is ...
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 ...