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…
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religion
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The local weekly featured two environmentalists just before the holiday that are actively promoting the idea of “Earth hospice.” If anything, shouldn’t they call it “Human hospice?”
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After the slaughter in Paris I called a Portuguese friend in the Azores who had lived for nearly 20 years in California. We hadn’t talked in nearly half a year,…
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If the events of recent days have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of human reason and rationality, which originated in France, cannot hold sway over the chaos…
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Questioner one: I’d like to begin our enquiry today with a statement by a local philosophy professor. He said, “Science and its method is the best available way to explain…
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A local reader wrote to declare, “our minds will be dark when we think darkly.” She went on to echo one of the most pernicious philosophies America has ever meted…
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Sometimes I wonder how anyone inwardly survives in this world without meditating. But when I hear people talk about their ‘practice,’ I realize we’re not talking about the same thing…
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If the universe is infinitely good, and intelligence and love infuse the cosmos, then how did evil arise?