Does God really exist? This is a question that has stirred the human heart for centuries, crossing cultures, philosophies, and faiths. In today’s world, the debate is as alive as ever, with science, ...
I am reading a book by John Sexton called “Baseball as a Road to God.” Sexton is the president of New York University, an observant Catholic man and a lover of the game of baseball. On some of the ...
This weekend saw the release of God’s Not Dead— the tale of a college freshman forced to defend his belief in God in front of his philosophy class. Although no one else had the tenacity to join me, I ...
One of my favorite thinkers is the great Catholic French philosopher Etienne Gilson. His work The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy, so crucial to Thomas Merton’s turn to Catholicism, has become a ...
Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy ...
Many who are readers must have read that popular and much referenced collection of essays under the title Why I Am Not a Christian by the legendary British philosopher Bertrand Russell. Originally a ...