thoughts on life

Someone wrote and flatly stated she was an atheist and I was a believer. Since I most often meet up with believers who think I’m a heretic or apostate, I…

The war between the sexes has taken many casualties and left few unwounded combatants on the battlefield in recent years. Women, being the stronger sex emotionally, have won a Pyrrhic…

Short of becoming monks, sannyasis or forest dwellers on the Olympic Peninsula, we have to grapple with the world and what is happening to humankind. Too many people, spiritually inclined…

The fault line of the false choice between religious belief and secular belief is being drawn down the middle of Alcoholics Anonymous. Disdaining the religious tone and ‘Higher Power” appeals…

One of the favorite saws of American pundits on both the left and the right is “all politics is local.” Like so much else in political life in the world…

A distinction is commonly made between “the historical Jesus” and the Christ of Christian belief. That’s valid from a historian’s point of view, but as Christianity and all organized religions…

Great masses of gray and white cumulus ascend thousands of feet over the partially shadowed lines of the foothills at the entrance to the canyon. As often happens after a…

As William Faulkner wrote, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” But blaming others, personally or collectively, for real or imagined injustices, perpetuates dependency. Indeed, prolonging a feeling of…