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August 2025

August 14, 2025

The End of Evolution?

What if natural intelligence has reached the end of its evolution, while artificial intelligence has...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

Certainty is the Great Enemy of Unity

In Conclave, author Robert Harris writes, "...The one sin I have come to fear more...

July 23, 2025

Transcendent Experiences: Nirvana or Nonsense?

Richard Dawkins and other scientists are interested in transcendent experiences. They are NOT seeing anything...

July 15, 2025

Mind Beyond Brain: Are We Living in the Matrix?

In my writing, I suggest that the brain might be more of a receiver than...

July 10, 2025

The Science of Beauty and the Beauty of Science

Science is exploring the big questions that theology is ignoring. Have you ever heard a...

July 01, 2025

Nations Rise and Fall. Religions Rise and Fall.

Nations rise and fall, and religions rise and fall. Species evolve and face extinction. If...

June 2025

June 25, 2025

Reconciling History and Mythology

Mythology can lead us toward or away from truth. Anyone who studies mythology will recognize...

June 19, 2025

Rediscovering Introspection, Reflection and Restoration

Pope Leo XIV recently delivered an address expressing appreciation for the Eastern Catholic churches. I...

June 12, 2025

Resolving Certainty and Doubt

We do NOT know anything about Ultimate Reality. At least, we do NOT "know" in...

June 06, 2025

The Two Halves of Life

The two halves of life offer two different experiences. Will we have the emotional maturity...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

Is There a Conflict Between Psychology and Spirituality?

Many observers conclude that self-actualization and self-transcendence are complementary. In The Way, I...

May 23, 2025

Does Religious Deconstruction Lead People Away from Church?

What do we do when we no longer believe? A good friend is...

May 15, 2025

Who Is a REAL Christian?

Why should we care who is a REAL Christian? For that matter, what is a...

May 08, 2025

Can the Catholic Church Reverse the Decline in Membership?

Many people who left the Church are NOT coming back. I wrote about why people...

April 2025

April 30, 2025

Why Are So Many People Leaving the Catholic Church?

For years, the Catholic Church has seen dramatic declines in Mass attendance. Many agree that...

April 23, 2025

Are We Too Attached to Our Religious Beliefs?

As science informs us, we are increasingly unlikely to believe unbelievable things. I wrote about...

April 17, 2025

Chop Wood. Carry Water. Buy Stocks. Sell Stocks.

The Zen patriarchs encourage us to manage attachment, craving and ignorance. I wrote about the...

April 10, 2025

Spirituality and the Stock Market

Buddhist Ken Wilber compares spirituality to the stock market. Wilber says that, over the long...

March 2025

March 27, 2025

Wisdom from Two Traditions: Should We Speak Up or Shut Up?

We should think before we speak. We can take our beliefs too seriously. And we...

March 21, 2025

What I Learned by Preparing 1,000 Tax Returns

These are tough times to be poor. In The Way, I describe my experience preparing...

March 13, 2025

Should We Abolish the IRS?

Should we really fire the people who collect the money? Tax Day is coming, and...

March 06, 2025

What Should We Do with the “Savings” from Spending Cuts?

Do you think that Jesus would take money from the poor? I don't. ...

February 2025

February 27, 2025

Do We Need Government to Help the Needy?

The government has to be an essential partner in helping the needy, including the poor,...

February 20, 2025

Compassion and Wisdom in the Buddhist Precepts

The Buddhist precepts help us to determine right and wrong. Some of my Christian friends...

February 13, 2025

Listening, Receiving and Reflecting on Truth

Quakers do NOT mandate particular beliefs. They do not require that members embrace any particular...

February 06, 2025

Three Lives, One Journey: My Evolving Search for Truth

Thank you for reading "You Might Be Right." The more that I write, the more...

January 2025

January 29, 2025

Unconditional Love in a Divided World

Can we practice unconditional love in a divided world? Sometimes, we judge others by their...

January 22, 2025

Anger and Othering in Politics and Religion

We develop insight when we deconstruct, since we know how we used to think and...

January 16, 2025

We Learn When We Challenge Our Beliefs

We can learn a lot by subjecting our beliefs to thought experiments. A thought experiment is...

January 09, 2025

Reality is Fluid, Holistic, Intangible and Relational

Nothing intrinsically exists apart from everything else. This is a concept that appears in both...