It was the strangest and most beautiful sky I’ve ever seen. After witnessing three dramatic changes in weather within an hour, I stood transfixed looking back on the sycamore under…
religion
-
-
The shirtsleeve weather of the previous few days suddenly shifted last night. Rain fell in the valley and snow fell in the foothills, just a few hundred meters above the…
-
Religion may promote messages such as “love thy neighbor” but religion does not make people more kind or trusting, a study has concluded. You see this every day in Costa Rica…
-
The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the park. It stopped and turned about 100 meters ahead, and then again at 75 meters. It was the size and…
-
From inside, the day is uniformly gray and dreary, as another in a long series of storms off the Pacific discharges rain and wind in northern California. But on the…
-
In the United States, nearly half of the population believes God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. The creationist view is crazy, but the mechanistic…
-
There was a time, not so long ago, when there was space for the individual to be different, and to forge a new path in a new place. Now physically,…
-
I don’t really like the word ‘mystical.’ It’s imprecise, and full of contradictory meanings, from divine to derisive. But carefully considered, the word may point to a limitless uncharted territory…