Power of Curiosity

In For the Time Being, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard writes:

In Highland New Guinea, now Papua New Guinea, a British district officer named ...

Mister Rogers: Deep and Simple

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

Einstein on Priorities

A student once asked Albert Einstein, "Dr. Einstein, how many feet are there in a mile?" To the utter astonishment of the student, Einstein ...

The Mind Matters

We cannot measure spiritual force by rules of philosophy or definitions of theology any more than by a carpenter's rule or chemist's scales. It ...

Final Exam

Legend has it that a certain college philosophy prof asked one question on his final exam. He picked up a chair, put it on his desk, and wrote on the ...

The Supernatural Is Not a Closed Case

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the mad-house on all the mystics of history. ...

Faith Like a Child

Now, as always, God discloses himself to "babes" and hides himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent.

God's Defense Attorney

In my early years as a pastor I would have admitted there was much about God I didn't know; in practice, though, I always felt I needed to have an answer ...

The True Path of Wisdom

One day some of the brethren came to see Abba Antony, and among them was Abba Joseph. Wishing to test them, the old man mentioned a text from Scripture, ...

The Wrong Tools

God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientific minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply ...