by Bill Schmitt | Nov 1, 2019 | Culture, Guest Blogs, Happiness, Latest
Thanks to Paul Nicolaus for a recent review examining scholarly research on the kind of happiness we might experience en route to the office each morning. Nicolaus’ online post for Oregon Public Radio, (“Want to Feel Happier Today? Try Talking to a Stranger”),...
by John Clark | Oct 17, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
In the 1957 movie, “12 Angry Men,” a dozen jurors are assembled for the purpose of determining whether a boy, accused with the murder of his father, is guilty of the alleged crime. The first ballot, though one-sided, lacks the required unanimity to convict: 11 guilty;...
by Guest Writer | Oct 7, 2019 | Astronomy, Guest Blogs, Latest, Science, Reason & Faith
I once thought that the Copernican Revolution was about the modern scientific view of the universe displacing the old Earth-centered view. Consider Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2014 re-make of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” TV series, with its animated sequence about Giordano Bruno...
by Ascension Media | Sep 30, 2019 | God and Suffering, Guest Blogs, Latest
When God first began teaching me about suffering, I was a young, non-Catholic, and found the whole subject completely depressing. As a rule, most non-Catholics have no theology of suffering. I, personally, had no handle on the glory of suffering, and using those two...
by Guest Writer | Sep 18, 2019 | Evidence for God, God & Modern Physics, Guest Blogs, Latest
There is an enormous corpus of talks, articles, commentaries, and YouTube presentations that focus on one of the strangest discoveries of the 20th century: quantum mechanics and its startling attendant features, the principles of uncertainty and superposition. When...
by John Clark | Sep 12, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
“You can’t handle the truth!” These words were spoken in “A Few Good Men,” a 1992 taut legal thriller about the prosecution of two Marines who accidentally killed another Marine during a terrifying “disciplinary” exercise. Their defense attorney, played by Tom Cruise,...
