Startled by an unfamiliar sound, you awaken on a soft bed of moss in an unfamiliar forest.  Your pulse quickens and your mind races.  Where are you?  How did you get here?  Where are your loved ones?  Are they safe?  How can you get home?  Is somebody watching you?  Will the person — or people!…

Sometimes we just can’t understand why God doesn’t answer our prayers. Certainly, the collection of promises and reasoning in Judeo-Christian scripture and tradition may create the feeling that, when we ask for things, God should give them to us.  Our modern sense of ourselves as choice-driven consumers who rightfully select the best option on offer…

Artificial intelligence increasingly allows us to escape (and deprived of) the responsibility of genuine relationships.

My prayer practices have varied over the years, as I’ve come across new materials and new ideas and as my schedule has changed, but with a general increase in time and discipline. For a while, I kept up a somewhat irregular devotion to the canonical hours, using a daily psalm book I received as a…

How long, O Lord? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord. This is why the law is…

Adam and Eve lived in a world of intimate connection with God until they chose to do the one thing He had left for them to choose not to do. Such a little, arbitrary thing is a bite of fruit, especially when every other tree and bush is available to harvest. They could see that…

The odd mix of anonymity and profundity in the Nativity story may point to the real meaning of “keeping Christmas well.”

Just as the purposeful, or teleological, hierarchy disaggregates down to the building blocks of Creation, so does the consequential, or nomological, hierarchy aggregate in the other direction.

As God’s experience of Himself diverges within the Multiverse, lesser beings emerge, with free will and the aptitude for evil.

Beginning to put structure to a flood of ideas starts with the most fundamental reality: the Idea.