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Richard Carrier is a very smart man. He is also a good writer and speaker. Born in California in 1969, Carrier served with the Coast Guard, graduated from UC Berkley, and earned a PhD in ancient history from Columbia. His focus has been on ancient Greece and Rome and the origins of Christianity, and he is the author of numerous ...
At a press conference prior to the Second Iraq War, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke about three types of information present in any situation. There are, he said, the known knowns, the known unknowns (what we know we don’t know), and the unknown unknowns. These latter, according to Rumsfeld, were “the difficult ones” because these were facts you didn’t know...
Lent begins next week with the observance of Ash Wednesday. The following is a Reflections post I wrote a few years ago looking at more contemporary, and less church-oriented, ways of experiencing the sacred in our lives.
Margaret Renkl is an occasional writer for The New York Times. She was raised Roman Catholic and Ash Wednesday has...
In my blog post last week, I quoted Marianne Williamson asking us to reimagine the world we live in.
What is the America you want? You know, there’s been all this talk about manifestation and v...
If you grew up, as I did, with the Depression as a constant if faint echo in your life, you undoubtedly knew the famous quote from Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural address in 1933: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” My parents were both products of the Depression and I believe the fear Roosevelt spoke of was with them for their whole lives.
I ...