Blog posts by yours truly
Hume, the laughing Scotsman, woke Kant from his “dogmatic slumber” with his skeptical attempt to formulate a science of human nature and has continued to variously puzzle, provoke, and inspire philosophers ever since with his half-mocking and sometimes ambiguous writings. His views on religion, particularly his attack on miracles, have stimulated some outrage and a…
Pregnancy has brought with it suitcases of struggles I haven’t encountered before. Recently, listening to the SetApart podcast, I was convicted about the way I had carried those struggles so far. Instead of unpacking the difficulties, I was shoving them into the corner with some vague, hopeful statements and a grin-and-bear-it attitude. “It’s all worth…
The other day, an Instagram ad caught my eye. I clicked for “More Information” and was taken to the following testimonial. “My name is Heinrich Faust. I spent fifty years in academia searching for truth only to realize I had wasted my life. I was decidedly single, and for all my work, I could hardly…
Choose a reason, any reason. your childhood sweetheart smiled today when he thought of you, even though it’s been 20 years and he’s married, with kids, down in texas you witnessed snow drift down onto the branches before anyone else woke up–you were the first! you saw the sun open up a day and seal…