About 600 BC, King Jehoiakim destroyed Jeremiah’s scroll in a fire. Around 250 BC Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China ordered the burning of all philosophy books and history books from states other than Qin. Following the conversion of the Maldives to Islam...
Do you believe in science, or do you believe in God? That is the choice that the modern world would have you make. Science, they say, is the province of reason; faith is irrational or non-rational belief. Pick one or...
Every field of knowledge has the capacity to amaze us: There are astonishing tales of history; awe-inspiring works of art and music; incredibly simple (and complex) mathematical proofs; brilliant and moving stories from literature. But science—the study of our natural...
“So, what are you doing over the break?” I hear this question often. I confess, I’m frequently the one asking it. So, what’s the problem? Well, remember how the term ‘holiday’ used to mean a day of sacred observance…and now it...
Wed 3/27/2024 8:25 AM Tom Holland, the author of a recent book titled “Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Changed the World,” who himself is not a Christian, writes this: “A myth, though, is not a lie. At its most profound—as...
This week is Holy Week for Christians around the world. It began yesterday on Palm Sunday and will conclude on Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, this weekend. In her poem Good Friday, which is the day on which Jesus was crucified, Christina...
In 1862, under the heavy burden of leading a divided nation through the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, gathered his cabinet to discuss his draft of the Emancipation Proclamation—the executive order that would make 3.5 million American slaves free people. ...
Wed 3/20/2024 8:09 AM Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” Of course, it is a laughable suggestion that man invented laughter; but Nietzsche’s...
Wed 3/20/2024 7:10 AM Victor Hugo once said: “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” Well, today is the first day of spring. So, this week, I’m going to see if I can make you laugh...
The rules of etiquette are not always used for the good. There is a long history of the aristocratic use of the rules of civilized conduct to exclude and ostracize those from a lower social position. While anyone can learn...
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