I’m weary of words. Our national discourse has become loud and shrill. Everywhere we go, it seems, we are followed by the strident staccato of Wolf Blitzer urging us towards the edge of our seats.
Articles with Religious naturalism
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A portion of the Ultra Deep Field • NASA/ESA (Public Domain)
Saying yes to the universe
Let me return once again to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo, a document of simply mind-blowing significance.
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Hope
As a Catholic (adjective) ex-Catholic (noun), I should take note of Pope Benedict XVI’s [2007] encyclical, Spe Salvi (“in hope we are saved”), his second, a document which has things to say about science.
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The uncommon commonplace
Writing recently about the Perseid meteor shower of August reminded me of one of the most vigorous showers I have witnessed, the one I wrote about in the first chapter of “Honey From Stone.”
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When miracles are gone, everything is holy
What is a miracle?
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Celebrating the ineffable
The scientific atheists (Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, for example) and the scientific theists (Francis Collins and Owen Gingerich, for example) hammer away at each other.
V838 Monocerotis • NASA/STScI
The here and now
I had occasion the other day to take down from the shelf of the college library a tattered copy of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. I found there the inconspicuous marks I made in the margins 40 years ago (and failed to erase), when I first read the book.
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The Ultimate X
Spry little x, with its feet planted firmly on the ground and its arms uplifted in surprise, is our emissary to the unknown.
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Through a glass darkly
Pascal’s Pensées is a grab bag of platitudes, nonsense and substance, a disorganized sketch of the book Pascal might have written had he lived long enough.
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O, never, never! And yet — and yet—
Childhood has two seasons: anticipation and summer.