Meditations

During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the Interahamwe genocidaires would rip children from their parents’ arms and execute them, forcing the mothers and fathers to watch. Then they would execute…

In the United States, nearly half of the population believes God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. The creationist view is crazy, but the mechanistic…

A friend and I were talking about skype recently, which has grown, without hype and free of charge, into a hugely useful and universal technology, enabling people to talk to…

Sitting on the patio during a drizzle, the wind suddenly picks up, the rain falls harder, and there’s a feeling almost of fury about the earth.

The Obama Administration, continuing the Bush Administration’s practice of placing itself above the law and the rights of humanity, has for four years acted as judge, jury, and executioner with…

“The more things change the more they stay the same” is a saying rooted and rotted in human nature. The question is, is human nature really immutable, or is it…

I’m struck by how many people these days believe they can create their own reality, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It’s become a national pastime in narcissistic America, and…

There was a time, not so long ago, when there was space for the individual to be different, and to forge a new path in a new place. Now physically,…