Sean Penn Connects Mystery with Truth

When everything gets answered, it's fake—the mystery is the truth.

—Actor Sean Penn

Success Gave Executive a Hollow Feeling

A N. Y. Times article on people who are sick of too many hours at work tells the story of Diane Knorr, a former dot-com executive:

"The first time ...

Einstein Found the World Comprehensible

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

—Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate ...

Dexter Manley Had Nothing but Football

He played in three Super Bowls, winning twice. Known as "The Secretary of Defense," the six-foot-three, 260-pound NFL defensive end compiled ...

Prayer Is Rebellion

"What then is the nature of petitionary prayer? It is, in essence, rebellion—, rebellion against the world in its falleness, the absolute and undying ...

Americans Live in Isolation

Novelist Jonathan Franzen writes about our increasing isolation:

In 1890, an American typically lived in a small town… Not only did his every purchase ...

Madeleine L'Engle on God's Perspective

Author Madeleine L'Engle, in A Wrinkle in Time: "I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view."

Our Relationship to Nature

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: that Nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you ...

Reality Check

Face reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Bruce Willis on Morality

Actor Bruce Willis offers his opinion on church teachings about morality:

[Organized religion] used to hang the whole thing on one hook. If you don’t ...