St. Isaac’s Cathedral had become a memory and a story, but recent news from St. Petersburg brought back strong insights and emotions I experienced there and in Russia nearly two…
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Meditations
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As I pass by on the bike, a junior high school girl, accompanied by three boys her age, shouts at the top of her lungs: “I don’t give a fuck…
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As the world looks on with dread, the American commentariat continues to deny the underlying causes of why a “petulant egomaniac” has been elected to the most powerful office in…
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At this fork in the road in the human experiment, we have for the first time in history the possibility of an explosion of insight in all three dimensions—spiritual, philosophical…
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It’s near sunset, and the light subtly changes on a gray, cold day. Sky, trees and land brighten, as if lit by a florescent lamp. The white bark of a…
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We sophisticated post-moderns tend to think of prophecy as a dubious, if not delusional element of Old Testament Judea. But is there another meaning to prophecy, one that is philosophically…
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The basic assumptions that a speaker or writer holds are often enfolded in an offhanded remark, asides of such conventional wisdom that their truth seems indisputable. These are precisely the…
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Two fish friends are swimming in a huge school. One of the fish awakens and says to her friend, “My God, all the water!” To which her friend replies, “What…