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Religion is a sin Galen Strawson Saving God: Religion after Idolatry by Mark Johnston Surviving Death by Mark Johnston   Saving God and Surviving Death: Mark Johnston has gone for the double, and I’m tempted to think he has succeeded, on his own terms, many of … Continue reading →

A central banker laments the market fundamentalism that breaks community and stirs mistrust. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/opinion/cohen-capitalism-eating-its-children.html Roger Cohen LONDON — Guildhall at the heart of the City can be a lulling sort of place after a long day. The statuary and vaulted … Continue reading →

From The New York Times The Case for ‘Soft Atheism’ It is possible to reject all religious doctrines as false without dismissing religion itself. http://nyti.ms/1lFskSK   It’s the 24th of May  Weekend even though it is only May 18th.  In … Continue reading →

i have a great desire welling up inside me  to go back to Oxford and the UK for a year of research, study and writing. Have I come full circle? Is it folly or fantasy to think I can mutate … Continue reading →

The much maligned  “Baltimore Catechism” was the legal Constitution that governed my life from an early age, Its ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts more significant than any civil law or ordinance.  Serious sin after all condemned one to the fires of  hell, … Continue reading →

March 2014 is almost a century distant from August 1914, but one reorganizes some of  the same forces at play in the Crimea as  the Ukraine devolves, as one saw in August 1914. Admittedly, the world is totally different now, … Continue reading →

MY STORY <nyt_headline version=”1.0″ type=” “>I Want to Be a Millennial When I Retire The author, left, writes that his son isn’t conventionally successful, and yet, “Max gets up when he likes and does what he loves.” <nyt_byline>JIM SOLLISCH My … Continue reading →

With Bonhoeffer: “who am I, who men say I am, or who I know myself to be,” and does it really matter anyway?  I know I am moving beyond my origins, my education, my business successes and failures, my interpersonal … Continue reading →