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June 2020

June 07, 2020

Weapons Against the Sin of Racism

Racism is evil, a particularly deep-rooted and damaging form of evil that haunts our nation's...

November 2019

November 07, 2019

You Could Die Anytime (When Breath Becomes Air)

Our culture fears anything related to death. We fear ageing, not merely out of distaste...

February 2019

February 03, 2019

On The Modern Prometheus

I recently re-read Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus for the first time in many years....

December 2018

December 16, 2018

Brain Disease or Religious Experience? Mark Salzman’s Lying Awake

What does it mean to feel God’s presence, and how is this related to brain...

December 13, 2018

Psychopathology or Holy Mysticism? Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy

What is the relationship between pathology and holiness? In recent years, scientific studies have sought...

November 2018

November 01, 2018

What matters in the end?

Because of modern medicine, we live longer now than any time in human history. But...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

The seductive power of being in “the Inner Ring”

Given the recent news about the sexual abuses committed in seminaries, I’ve been thinking a...

September 06, 2018

Does neuroscience disprove the soul? Tom Wolfe has some thoughts

I decided to read a Tom Wolfe novel recently. First of all, as a tribute...