Note: This essay only addresses Christianity, as it’s the only faith tradition I have much experience of. Some of the points might easily apply to other faiths, but I’m not a religious scholar and wouldn’t… Read more

Walking composition Text from me: “I keep feeling like I’m forgetting how to drive while I’m driving.”Text from friend: “That’s a good metaphor.”. . . <<No really, like I was backing out of a driveway… Read more

Walking composition “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather I had a sketched-out draft of an essay on religious faith for this week, but then decided I wanted to… Read more

Walking composition, freezing my face off composition “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the… Read more

My first semester of college, I had a neighbor who had a nice stereo system. I don’t know anything about stereo systems to I have to take her word that it was nice, or at… Read more

Walking composition “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” —Fyodr Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Last week I read Simon Winchester’s new book Land: How the Hunger for… Read more

Walking composition “There is too much tendency to making separate and independent bundles of both the physical and the moral facts of the universe. Whereas, all and everything is naturally related and interconnected.” —Ada Lovelace,… Read more

Shortly after January’s attempted coup in Washington, D.C., Leah Sottile, a long-time reporter on anti-government extremism (including this great piece on the history and co-opting of the “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flag) and host… Read more

Once and future technology “If the ultimate authority in the world is human feeling, but somebody has discovered how to hack and manipulate human feelings, then the whole system collapses.” —Yuval Noah Harari speaking recently… Read more

Space and time “Movement is humankind’s oldest survival strategy.” — Paul Salopek, Out of Eden Walk My media consumption this week had a collision of observations about space. In National Geographic, Paul Salopek published an… Read more