Religion
Religious Isolation and the Ridiculousness of Play
I’ve been meaning to post some quotes from Jack Miles’ interview with The Sun for a […]
Another Week Ends: The Geel System, Secular Happiness, GMOs, the F …
1) Aeon covers the small, “half-crazy” Belgian town of Geel, where the mentally ill have […]
Brief Thoughts on the Great, Soon-to-Be-Late Poirot
Next week, after nearly 25 years, ITV’s Agatha Christie-based Poirot draws to an end. Now just in […]
Paul Tillich on the Easy Yoke Made Heavy
A quick zinger from Paul Tillich in 1963, characterizing the “new” (and yet strangely familiar) […]
von Balthasar on Buddhism; or, Zen and Jesus
A well-known 20th-century Catholic theologian on non-Christian religions: Because through his faith and love Socrates […]
Christmas Rapping (live 1980)
Christmas is almost here, just like Kurtis Blow’s switch to full-time ministry was “almost here” […]
Life As Inter-Religious Dialogue
There was a recent citywide referendum here in Berlin that was over the question as […]