Meditations

A dark shadowline slowly rises on the opposite wall of the gorge as the sun nears the horizon behind me. One’s shadow is thrown across the chasm near a huge…

It’s funny listening to a theoretical physicist muse on death. Perhaps it’s like listening to a religious philosopher ponder quarks and bosons. The difference being that the physicist’s special knowledge…

I had an interesting conversation with a self-described “meditation teacher” recently who teaches at a well-known retreat center in California. She regularly leads 10-day and month-long silent retreats. Though I’m…

As a religious philosopher, I’m loathe to write another column about Donald Trump and the chaos presidency. But as a religious philosopher, I feel a responsibility to attempt to convey…

It seems like all that’s left is to escape into comedy. Even that is becoming quite a strain however, both to keep up with the surreal hilarity of the Trump…

It’s important to have relationship with animals that aren’t your pets. And I’m not just talking about a birdfeeder in the backyard. But what does a relationship with animals in…

Quietness again lifts and planes out, the blood in our heads gliding in the sky of the brain. Rumi My friend from graduate philosophy days and I are having good…

President Trump’s Apprentice-style firing of FBI Director James Comey has thrown the United States into a constitutional crisis. “This should shock the whole of America out of its numbness,” the…