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,...
by Crisis Magazine | Sep 10, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
When Pope Francis, the first Jesuit to become pope, celebrated Mass for the feast of St. Mark last April, he used his homily to exhort the Church to proclaim the Gospel with magnanimity and humility. He noted that St. Thomas Aquinas taught that magnanimity, or...
by Rory O'Donnell | Aug 29, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Philosophy
In his great work the “Summa Theologiae,” Thomas Aquinas discusses the will of God and asks two very similar questions: (1) Is what is willed by God necessarily willed? And (2) Does God have free will? Aquinas teaches that there is one thing that God wills...
by Ascension Media | Aug 16, 2019 | Culture, Guest Blogs, Latest
It “changed movies forever.” That’s the accolade given to the writing and direction of Steven Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. His visionary genius brought us haunting theme music and dazzling special effects. More importantly though, the...
by Dr. Michael Ferguson | Jul 12, 2019 | Guest Blogs, Latest, Science, Reason & Faith, Soul
As a neuroscientist conducting research at an Ivy League-affiliated hospital, some might assume that I have an irredeemably hostile regard for historical paradigms on human nature. After all, there is an unfortunate tendency for contemporary scientists to disregard,...
