All over the world people and countries are spending like there’s no tomorrow on updating their arsenals of selective and mass murder an...

  In a class discussion about the philosophy of mind, a student who was a nurse once told me a sad story about her husband.   When he was ...

                                                         Indigenous people, generally poorer and powerless, have played no part in t...

In an idle moment while doodling, something about the Biblical creation story occurred to me.   It’s hard for me to imagine that the all-w...

 Has the driving force of evolution on Earth gone crazy?   Could it have meant to produce a species, in which the members are constantly kil...

      What could be more at opposite ends of each other than technology and the paranormal? And yet, once we think about it, we n...

Election day is coming, and this one is like no other in world history. It’s an election for the president of the United States, the great...

  The physical sciences have been highly successful, for example, in advancing medicine, consumerism, and militarism. The psychologica...

  The other day the New York Times ran a story about visions of the Virgin Mary. Pope Francis made a comment about the ongoing reports of ...

My last post was a question—Guardian angel or subconscious mind?   The question is interesting. It confronts a true story that baffles the...

How nice if there were   some mystic resource we could rely on for help—a hidden eye looking out for us—a guardian angel!    Belief in the...

  The other day I was struck by all the layers of mystery lurking in the fact of human existence. In the evolution of our existence, I co...