""...the dividing line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his...

There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...

Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...

We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all....

When he was born, his mama said, “The moon turned black, and the clock stopped dead. Lord, have mercy,” she said, “what have I done? Is...

The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma--human or divine--can diminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and...

The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...

An occasionally wise erstwhile friend once told me he thought there were three important things in life to think about. While his...

This is a "guest blog" from my old friend Martha, my one-time Dean of Faculty who got me involved in a writing group, part of the...

Strange beginnings to some thoughts about epigenesis. For those of you who aren’t sure what that means, it’s the part of biological...