I’ll start by quoting The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48, where that dictionary draws upon the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary for the particular terms of interest in this essay. (The reader is well-advised to pay attention to the definitions and maybe even contemplate their deeper meanings and implications because I’ll be moving fast … [Read more…]
We have with us always—in this mortal realm—various heresies which take too seriously the theological quandary: how could an all-powerful and all-good God have created a world in which there is so much evil? The great thinkers who have seeming headed this way, Isaiah and Jeremiah and Lord Acton as just 3 examples, have eventually … [Read more…]
[This is the first in a series of some number of articles on this subject—Love and Stuff, which will be defined over the course of the series. The past eight months of so began with writer’s burnout, went into a streak of sinus infections, followed by flu in early July. I’ve also endured a rapidly … [Read more…]
Early in May, I read The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Ethan H. Shagan. I thought the analysis was pretty good, but I didn’t like the ‘global’ conclusion: Enlightenment rationality did not devour the world in its ravenous maw, it was only a subset of … [Read more…]
I’ve uploaded the new novel, A Stranger in a Land of Strangers. It’s a continuation of the novel, href=”http://loydfueston.com/downloads/silence.pdf”, Gathering the Silence which I first published in 2014. This is what I wrote about that earlier novel in the announcement of the availability of the first edition: In a sense this is both my latest … [Read more…]
There is something describable by the term `human nature’ and something else describable by the term `human personhood’. We’ve confused the two greatly in our modern world, so intellectually challenged in nearly all fields of thought but science and technology and so morally challenged in all fields including science and technology. To orthodox Trinitarian Christians, … [Read more…]
On 2019/02/24, Roman Catholics who attended the Mass for Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (Cycle C) heard St Paul telling the Corinthians: It is written, `The first man, Adam, became a living being,’ the last Adam a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was not first: rather the natural and then the spiritual. The first man … [Read more…]
There are writers on the Internet, some maybe just scribblers but many are thinkers of some capacity, who criticize other peoples, including most Latin Americans, for being too dumb to handle complex, American-style economic and political systems. To be sure, many of these criticisms are quite true, though we should realize that current immigration patterns … [Read more…]
The funny answer would be that I don’t have enough time to write my essays so that they would be shorter and easier to understand. Ordinarily, there would be some serious truth in that—even so great a writer as Blaise Pascal could say: I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have … [Read more…]
Christians in the past century or more have failed utterly to face up to the biological reality: God has created a world where family-lines of organisms are kept in good condition by Darwinian selection processes leading to death or reproductive failure of organisms with `inadequate’ traits—often caused by mutations. Complex traits, such as intelligence or … [Read more…]