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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that that spirit of God is the elder brother of my own, And…
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“The center cannot hold…the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Though these lines from Yeats prescient poem “The Second Coming,” penned in 1919, are…
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“Humans are the pinnacle of creation.” That idea has long been discredited. But where do humans fit in the universe, and why we don’t we fit in nature on earth?