"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an en...

Even if New Year's is two weeks away, I've resolved this past year to expand my reading material. The echo chamber's become a...

How much do our quick decisions and snap judgments rest on our implicit, innate bias? I have often wondered about how our ancestral groupin...

At my last sitting, our moderator raised a couple of insights I wanted to share. First, that the fundamental concept of dependent arising...

I want to share two competing arguments about the influence that religious aspirations impose upon our neural networks. These do not prov...

Reminded by my friend who found a typically endless rant by this addled pantheist during research at the Huntington, I pulled my copy of P...

Back in the early '80s, I bought  Shusaku Endo's novel   Sílence. Finally issued in paperback, and with me enrolled at a Jesuit un...

To follow up my last post, I opened up over breakfast the NYT " T" Sunday supplement. Glossy testament to consumer lure, thi...

My wife and I watched a 20/20 show last night about a Christian couple in Tennessee. They had 18 children. They wanted more. The wife was 4...

A friend of Irish and Greek descent living in Germany told me today how "we need to rally together and be the keepers of all that kn...

I mentioned in my previous entry the fear of impermanence among those whose livelihood and identity face diminishing returns. I found toda...

"Please don't let your suffering make you an idiot." So the moderator of the small sitting group I join monthly advised us ...

Yes, that title is symbolic. This short novel can be read in a sitting. It takes a mock-medieval style to report, from alternating and even...

It never occurred to me that during the last Ice Age, European hunters might have been blown off course on the massive sub-polar pack ice...

To follow-up my previous entry on the Irish in Montana, here's a link to the Indiegogo crowdfunding project. This is to help generate...