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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Reluctant Prayer

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I do not like to pray, but I think prayer is important. Of course, "prayer" can mean many different things, and I do not mean a...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Home and Hospitality

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A friend asked me today to explain what I mean by "home" in a sentence or two.  This is too tall an order for someone as wordy as...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Boredom and Curiosity - My Talk To The Class of 2016

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This year I had the rare privilege of giving the Convocation Address to our new students.  Here's a bit of what I said, with a link to ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Future Hopes, Present Experience, and the Wisdom of the Past

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A reflection on Henry Bugbee's Inward Morning , his entry dated Friday, September 5. Bugbee writes: "Of experience...we may hop...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Sorcery and Pollution

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In the Apocalypse of St John on Patmos, he writes that some will be excluded from heaven by their wickednesses. [1]  He describes them wit...
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Philosophy Begins in Wonder

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Aristotle famously remarked that the love of wisdom - philosophy - begins in wonder.  This is correct. It has since been noted that philo...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Faith, Hope, and Certainty

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“Certainty may be quite compatible with being at a loss to say what one is certain of.  Indeed I seriously doubt if the notion of ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Comfort of Certainty

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"Only once, as far as I remember, in all my lifetime have I experienced the pleasure of praise--not for what it might bring but in it...