thoughts on life

It’s rather hilarious to hear both conservative and liberal politicians and pundits in the United States say that if Congress doesn’t vote to “punish” Assad for using chemical weapons, it…

There’s an old Arab proverb: “I against my brother; I and my brother against my cousin; I and my brother and my cousin against the world.”

Talked with a woman recently who had major surgery for a large but thankfully benign cyst. The mass was in a very delicate area, and three surgeons wouldn’t even perform…

A friend writes to express a conundrum many people are grappling with these days, touching on a philosophical inquiry that rather obsessed my youth until I gained sufficient insight into…

Reincarnation is a fact but not the truth, I once heard a religious teacher say. The point is to incarnate, not reincarnate. Then what the hell is hell?

As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…

Talking to an unorthodox chaplain at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia recently, he stated his faith in that there is a higher intelligence operating in and on…

It’s a lazy summer afternoon, and at the only sandy ‘beach’ in Lower Park, a big group of parents and children frolic in the water.