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May 10, 2021 - Sylvia’s Plath’s Path
Sylvia Plath, considered one of America’s greatest 20th century poets, died in 1963. She committed suicide by sticking her head in a...
May 3, 2021 - Not Enough Evidence?
One of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers was Sir Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM (Order of Merit). Born into an...
April 26, 2021 - To Prosper in God’s Truth
What sinful flesh ever uttered a prayer greater than the one in Daniel 9:4-19, a confession of the corporate wrongs that left Judah...
April 19, 2021 - Among the Algae?
Years ago, a well-known atheist biologist, D.W. Hamilton, who loved to study Amazonian beetles, had passed away. At the funeral in...
April 12, 2021 - Radio Waves And Angels
Philosophers have often talked about the difference between the world as it really is, and the world as we humans perceive it. What does...
April 5, 2021 - Getting Acclimated
FBI agents had been trying to plant bugs in the home of a reputed mafia boss but with little success. The biggest problem was four...
March 29, 2021 - Why We Are Here
From the beginning humans have asked the logical question: Why are we here? Where did we, that is, not just human on earth, but we, as in...
March 22, 2021 - The Butterfly Effect
Scientists talk about what is known as The Butterfly Effect. It’s the notion, based on something called Chaos Theory, that a butterfly...
March 15, 2021 - The Impulse
A young man, full of zeal and idealism, began his first day’s work in a soup kitchen. He worked feverishly, feeding the hungry and...
March 8, 2021 - A Deeper Reality
At Christmastime, we Christians often read the story about the angel Gabriel coming to Mary and telling her about the conception of Jesus...
March 1, 2021 - Twenty-Six Hundred Years of Philosophy
Philosophy began at 7:30 AM on June 24th, 585 B.C., in the city of Miletus, now the west coast of Turkey. It was a Thursday. Of course,...
February 22, 2021 - Misguided Missles
The 1990s, USA. A group of military honchos, along with defense contractors and engineers, gather in a remote field to watch a...
February 15, 2021 - Moral Relatives
Remember Joseph Fritzl? Mr. Fritzl made big news a few years back when it was discovered that he held his daughter captive in an...
February 8, 2021 - Creation Matters
“In my beginning,” wrote poet T.S. Eliot, “is my end.” Eliot has a point, actually. Particularly when it comes to human beginnings; human...
February 1, 2021 - Judge Nothing Before the Time
One of the most hopeful texts in the Bible is from Paul: “Therefore, judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes, who will both...
January 25, 2021 - The Group Hug
It was a small, informal get-together of a few families at a home in Washington, DC. They were on the back patio, enjoying themselves...
January 18, 2021 - Those Awful Cemeteries
Jack Kerouac was a well-known American writer, part of a group called the Beats, precursors to Beatniks and, eventually, the hippies....
January 11, 2021 - Existence as Accident
A promotional for an upcoming webinar stated the following: “Like every other species, we humans are here by accident. But it is...
January 4, 2021 - Daniel 7
One of the most dynamic prophecies in the Bible is the vision of the prophet Daniel, as record in chapter seven. Daniel writes of seeing...
December 28, 2020 - The Heavens Declare
Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote: “Overhead, between the formless trees bordering my dissolving path, the night sky was pale with...

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