Monthly Archives: May 2016

Remarking on the reason for writing the book, Diarmaid Macculloch provides the following comment in the Introduction to Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.  “It (the book) tries to avoid giving too many answers since this habit has been one of the great vices of organized religion.” Often false certainty is easier, more appealing, thanContinue reading “Answers we should not seek”

Growing up, I recall being terrified of mummies. The dried skin clinging to the shriveled body, the decayed head and bony hands. The vestiges of the embalming process present as loss wrapping hung now limply around the shrunken skeleton. Whether in a museum or book, the death and the customs surrounding the death were foreign in aContinue reading “A numbing adaptation”

    This is as political as this blog will get. The fact that this topic is construed as political is concerning. Somehow what is, in reality, a human and an earth problem, has been relegated to a small portion of political bickering in much of the modern world. A bit of history. Originally thereContinue reading “We must care…”