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A Faith Not Worth Fighting For
In recent days we’ve learned about President Obama’s role in deciding which terrorist suspects are selected for the “kill list.” Inclusion on this list all but guarantees the subject will be the target of a supposedly secret and increasingly common drone strike. While the story seems dramatic from every angle, from the president’s intimate involvement…
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Where to visit (and eat) in NYC?
Eliot and I will soon be visiting my parents in New Jersey; Maggie is heading south to visit a brand-new nephew. They live across the river from New York City and I’m planning on spending a bit of time exploring. Where should we go? And maybe more importantly, where should we eat? I’ve done some…
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Faith as Darkness
Michael is blogging again, a very good thing indeed. The problem with trust is the darkness. You can’t see the thing, the person, the idea in which you trust. You can’t know from seeing or touching that the thing is really there. It’s the feeling of faith. The dark and dismal presence without presence. The…
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“…modern image of science as the anti-theolgy…”
In the middle of the nineteenth century August Comte asserted with utmost confidence that science, by then, he said, essentially complete, had discredited and supplanted religion. A few years later, perhaps in part because of Comte had readied the way for the interpretation of it, Darwin’s theory of evolution was also widely understood to have…
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