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February 2021

February 11, 2021

The Stoic Self Evident of Get Busy Living or Dying

It's a memorable quote from Shawshank Redemption, one of my favorite movies. The lead character...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

MLK Jr on the Ultimate Measure and Servant Leadership

To celebrate his legacy, another gem from Martin Luther King Junior in Strength to Love,...

January 13, 2021

David Bentley Hart on the Incoherence of Hell

A mic drop for universalism, whether or not you're attracted or revolted by the concept,...

January 07, 2021

Marcus Aurelius on Disturbance from Within

Sagely advice, another classic in the "dichotomy of control" from Marcus Aurelius' famous Meditations. And...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Mandela on the Journey Ahead

2020 will go down as an epoch year, one for the history books; two viruses,...

November 2019

November 24, 2019

Kierkegaard on Universal Salvation

A controversial philosopher and theologian; to say the least - Soren Kierkegaard has always been...

October 2019

October 06, 2019

MLK Jr on Slavery and Human Blindness

A fantastic quote from one of Martin Luther King Jr's sermons "Love in Action" on...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

Thoreau, Holmes, and Wallace on Truly Living

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song...

May 2019

May 05, 2019

Williamson on Our Deepest Fear

I remember hearing a shortened version of this beautiful poem from a moving scene in...

August 2018

August 06, 2018

Rollins on Participation

Another one from Rollins on the idea of belief as subjective "participation". The question of "Does...

July 2018

July 15, 2018

Douglass on Exposing Slavery

A powerful sentiment from Frederick Douglass on "exposing slavery", even the more salient coming from an...

July 05, 2018

Newberg on the Neuroscience of Spirituality

Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause's book Why God Won't Go Away is outstanding....

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Tegmark and the Mathematical Universe

In his book Our Mathematical Universe, cosmologist Max Tegmark puts forward both a big question...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

MLK Jr on a Christian Humanism

On the intersection of Christianity, humanism, and social justice, Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from a...

February 18, 2018

Davies On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

In Mind of God, agnostic physicist Paul Davies explores a number of deep questions, one...

February 04, 2018

Rosenberg on Reality

You have to admire philosopher Alex Rosenberg. His skepticism is piercing. In An Atheists Guide...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Rollins on the Existential Denial of the Resurrection

It's an interesting existential perspective, that "beliefs" are actually "becoming". In many cases, it makes sense...

January 10, 2018

Peterson on Truth and the Religious Meta Hero

I wrote earlier on different domains of truth, on MLK Jr's eloquence on science and religion, on methodological...

January 02, 2018

Einstein on a Holy Curiosity

What is the mark of a "holy curiosity"? As Einstein described, it was a spirit of...

December 2017

December 12, 2017

MLK Jr on Science and Religion

I've been thoroughly enjoying Strength to Love, a collection of Martin Luther King Junior's sermons....

November 2017

November 28, 2017

MLK Jr on Love and Illumination

Change is hard. Inertia has its own unrelenting staying power, perhaps no more apparent in...

November 24, 2017

Lincoln on Slavery

Lincoln is no doubt my favorite US President. One of my favorite quotes from him...

November 10, 2017

Schrödinger on Consciousness

I dig philosophy of mind. For those with an interest in metaphysics and the big...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Frankl on the Highest Good

Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most powerful books I've read...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Copleston on Knowledge of God

For Aquinas, knowledge begins with sense perception. ‘Our natural knowledge takes its beginning from sense. Therefore...

October 2015

October 11, 2015

Bryan Magee on Jesus

A surprising quote from Bryan Magee, one of my favorite historians and commentators of philosophy....

August 2015

August 09, 2015

Augustine on Concealed Revelation

Concealed revelation - its's about the nature of God as comprehended by the limits of...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

Aristotle on the Nature of the First Mover

It's unsurprising that Aquinas drew from Aristotle to synthesize natural theology with Christianity (Aquinas frequently...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Whitman on Contributing a Verse

One of my favorites from Whitman, I remember coming across it vividly by way of...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Etienne Gilson on Metaphysics, Being, and Faith

A gem from Etienne Gilson, an amazing historian of philosophy with an existential Thomistic flair....