Mathematician Phil Wilson wonders why applied math is even possible : [W]hy should the physical realm emerge from and be rooted in the platonic realm? Why should the mental realm emerge from the physical? Why should the mental realm have any direct connection with the platonic? And in what way do . . . . Continue Reading »
What Does it Mean to Fear the Lord? Archbishop of Washington website , Msgr. Charles Pope Study Finds Signs of Awareness in 3 ‘Vegetative’ Patients New York Times , Benedict Carey Will This Election Be The Mormon Breakthrough New York Times , Harold Bloom Atheists in U.S. Military Seek . . . . Continue Reading »
I attend a church where, when a creed is printed in the order of worship, the word “catholic” is accompanied by an asterisk. Tonight, I saw that small-c catholicity in action. We hosted a choral concert (“Majestic Choruses”), featuring the choirs of our church . . . . Continue Reading »
“I said to the president, ‘You should have taken me by the lapels and tossed me onto Pennsylvania Avenue for what I have done.’ He said to me, ‘I forgive you.’”Gayle recently spoke with Timothy S. Goeglein, author of The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of . . . . Continue Reading »
A great story about a man who felt himself lucky in circumstances many of us would have felt unfortunate if not cursed: the story of Hugh Mulcahy , who played in the majors for a terrible team and lost twice as many games as he won, and then spent five years fighting in World War II, and never . . . . Continue Reading »
Universalism, the belief that everyone is going to heaven, is becoming widespread. Check out the popularity of Rob Bell’s book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person WhoEver Lived as an example. A perennial question Universalists love to ask traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
1. First off, I’m very glad to learn about the funny NORWOOD. Thanks, Carl. That reminds me that the chair of the politics and literature section of the American Politcial Sciece Association really wants to have a show on TRUE GRIT next year. Any volunteers? 2. I saw a little of the . . . . Continue Reading »
As Thanksgiving approaches, many of you will be Homeward Bound and back again, on turnpikes or through airports, and you are starting to ask that key question: what recorded books ought I to obtain for the journey? Well, for the certifiably insane geniuses and Christian masochists, who can navigate . . . . Continue Reading »
The end of Halloween and the genuinely frightening FX show American Horror Story - in which a family heavily interacts with ghosts spanning the generations, where horror began with an abortionist doing his own Frankenstein-type experiments - has provoked the following somewhat disparate thoughts . . . . . Continue Reading »
That was pretty good debate yesterday. I could nitpick (how much do you all think a war with Iran might cost -in American lives and American money - if you launch an attack on that country’s nuclear facilities?), but I won’t. Good for them (even Ron Paul.) It was . . . . Continue Reading »
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