Christianity

It’s often said that to be productive and happy, a person has to feel part of something larger than her or himself, and serve that larger thing with a true…

This is an extremely dangerous moment in American and world history, more dangerous than even the Civil War. If the South had seceded, it would have destroyed the Union. If…

I don’t really like the word mystic; there’s something rather mystical about it. But for lack of a better term, mystics are simply human beings who have a tendency toward…

The most difficult falsehoods to uncover are those that are wrapped in a truth.

An American living much of the year in Mexico wrote asking me to “state my religious agenda.” I don’t care for agendas, especially hidden ones. But intent is important. And…

A pristinely clear and cold stream flows by at my feet, its brown and reddish stones burnished by the fresh current and glistening in the sunlight. A woodland hawk soars…

It’s spiritually immature in the extreme for a pope or a pundit to believe that “dogs go to heaven.” For a pundit to write such blather is silly and sentimental;…

Do our conceptions of the mind determine emotional states, or even influence them to any significant degree? Or is the globalizing culture, manifesting through family, friends and oneself, much more…