My hope is to hook up with some human beings or foundations who would like to help me to continue constructing an intellectually and empirically respectable worldview for sacramental Christians. The established Christian intellectual and artistic institutions aren’t nearly doing the job. I addressed this issue in a post back in 2014: We Need All … [Read more…]
We Are the Image of God, Except When that Requires Effort on Our Part At an Easter Vigil Mass (RC), I was a lector—5th reading. That reading is from the book of the prophet Isaiah and includes these lines: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. … [Read more…]
Far too often, Christians—including some who should know better—claim that: Christianity is simple; just follow Christ’s teaching of loving your neighbor and doing good for him. Baloney. For reference, this is the link to the creed, Profession of Faith, used in the Catholic Mass on Sundays and other Holy Days: Profession of Faith used in … [Read more…]
I’ve uploaded the second edition of the novel, Gathering the Silence. This is what I wrote about this novel in the announcement of the availability of the first edition: In a sense this is both my latest and my first novel. It’s about the fifth version of what started out as a straightforward fictional telling … [Read more…]
The American Mathematical Society has printed a nice, non-technical discussion of some basics of modern topology, necessarily intermingled with a discussion of modern geometry. It’s in the form of a tribute to a highly regarded mathematician who was one of the pioneers of modern topology, William Thurston. The article is found at: Remembering Bill Thurston … [Read more…]