All things are deeply interconnected. The oneness that is God’s underlies and sets its mark on all God’s creation. However, that oneness is rarely obvious without a lot of digging. This is our lot, says the Bible — Man was…
Curiosity and Its Twelve Rules for Life F.H. Buckley (Encounter Books, 248 pages, $30) Novelist and prankster Ken Kesey recounted that his dad upbraided him once, declaring to him, “Your problem is that you keep trying to scrute the inscrutable!”…
Words spoken from the heart enter the heart. When we try to win the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens for the cause of free self-government, we need to communicate that we have considered the real issues that concern…
Professor Marvin Fox once said to a graduate philosophy class, “God doesn’t command us to breathe.” His point was that there is no need to command people to do something they will do anyway. Instead, a commandment directs us to…
Democracies have taken great pains to separate religion and the workings of law and politics. And surely, the intimacy of the religious connection of the human being and God should not be subject to the compulsion of the state. But…
