Every age has its heresies. Every age also sees a renewal of the general rule that faith must be attacked. C.S. Lewis Depending on how the ever-powerful digital artifically intelligent algorithm has directed your attention, you may or may not have seen the latest survey of American attitudes regarding country…

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” J.R.R. Tolkien For most of my life, I’ve been blessed and cursed with thick curly, kinky hair. Blessed in that…

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ― Daniel J. Boorstin — A single feather fluttering in a gentle breeze sets the mood for one of America’s most beloved movies- Forrest Gump. We watch the feather lightly settle at Forrest’s feet after fluttering to and fro with no real purpose but to tempt us to understand its significance. …

Lead us, Evolution, lead us up the future’s endless stair. C.S. Lewis One of the most iconic cable TV advertisements is the one where an elderly lady has fallen to the floor. As she lay helpless and alone, she did the only thing she could- she yelled somewhat pathetically, “I’ve…

“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” ― Charles Dickens For some strange reason, I developed an irrational fear of dropping her. Born at just three pounds and one glorious ounce, I could easily have…

“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.” Hermann Hesse from Steppenwolf In novelist Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, Harry is hopelessly paralyzed by a crisis of identity. He is pathetically miserable, possessing the instincts of…

We generally become aware of our grandparents when they’ve turned a whitish-grey. Well, not all. My grandpa had a head that was as shiny as a billiard ball kept warm by one of those old-school velvet hats. …

Food does more than sustain us. It is over which we tell most of our stories. Davos looks like a lovely place to visit. At nearly a mile above sea level, the town of 10,000 or so is surrounded by the majestic Swiss Alps. In the winter, Davos is a…

“Man really is stupid, phenomenally stupid. That is, he’s by no means stupid, but rather he’s so ungrateful that it would be hard to find the likes of him.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky I think it was spring. And in the northwest, spring is mostly wet and dreary. My family was…