Do What We’ve Always Done?
It may not come as a surprise to most readers of this blog that the presidential election did not go my way. And I’m not encouraged by the choices for ...
A Religion of Impossibilities?
Pigs Fly. People walk on walls. Catfish play the trumpet. All among things that are impossible, most would agree. Then there are the theoretical or apparent impossibilities. World Peace. Democrats ...
Figuring the Odds
Many of you, when studying physics or math, may recall learning about Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, philosopher, physicist and theologian who lived from 1623 to 1662. Pascal came up ...
God: Busy Elsewhere?
In “Darkest Hour,” a Netflix movie about Second World-War England, Winston Churchill – the frumpish prime minister who rallied his country to resist the Nazis – told King George VI: ...
The Benefits of Thankfulness
This blog, as they say in show biz, is partly an encore performance; that is, it’s partly from a Thanksgiving blog I wrote in 2016. (Hey, the blog is free!) ...
“Religion Pure and Undefiled”
Pardon me if I’ve told this story before. On one of my trips to rural El Salvador with fellow parishioners from Iowa, I was walking down a dirt road – ...