A Guide to Finding Faith?
Some years ago, a friend of New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat told Douthat that, “If appreciating some of the ideas in St. Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ was enough to make ...
Did God Make Us or Did We Make God?
Are we made in God’s image and likeness or is God made in our image and likeness? The first notion is in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, where ...
Why We Won’t Talk About God
Every week after publishing these blogs I post a brief summary of the blog’s contents and its accompanying image on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram and email the same to ...
Finding Your True Self
I’m an enthusiastic supporter of science, even though I write these blogs about finding God. I see no contradiction between science and religion, believing that the contradictions that are commonly ...
Does God Have a Plan for Our Lives?
I’ve often thought about how we humans wind up where we are, in the physical as well as social and economic senses. First, how is the family into which you ...
Dear Universe: Thanks but No Thanks
I remember years ago hearing about the “Gaia hypothesis” and thinking that it was interesting, if not plausible. In case you are unfamiliar with it, the Gaia hypothesis, to paraphrase ...