The Eclipse of Reason
Pope Benedict’s 2010 Christmas Greeting to the Roman Curia, a Catholic version of the American “State of the Union Address,” was notable for the emphasis placed upon human reason. His Holiness did not...
View ArticleThe Need for Universals
“Wonder and the passion for philosophy, let us explore all aspects of life and understand all that it has to offer. “I had claimed to have learned little to nothing in regards to valuable life lessons...
View ArticleTeenagers and Truth
What is truth? This is not an idle question, especially for teenagers. They may not ask it this way but there is a hunger, a need, an intense yearning to grab onto something that makes sense of their...
View ArticleScience, Beauty, Teenagers and the God Question
Young Atheists One of the most difficult issues, with which I have to personally deal as a teacher, is the student who enters my Grade 9 Religion class at the age of fourteen already an avowed atheist....
View ArticleThe Principle of Finality and Teenagers… or “Is That Your Final Answer?”
The tough question Every year, around November, I have an involuntary front row seat to the latest round of teenage angst dealing with University applications. One year was particularly intense because...
View ArticleRediscovering Our Humanity… Metaphysically
We are raising activists, not saints! I don’t remember exactly what it was that made me scribble down that observation because I was cooking lunch for my children and was half listening to the news on...
View ArticleGender Confusion Results from Misunderstanding Human Nature
From “gender-bending” to “gender-less” in less than two weeks. Honestly, I couldn’t make this up because I’d lose all credibility. Yet life certainly is stranger than fiction; oftentimes sadly so. In...
View ArticleWe’ve Lost that “Thinking” Feeling
When I first begin a new semester of teaching Philosophy, I always begin by asking students for their opinions on certain moral and social questions. In almost all cases the student’s response begins...
View ArticleWe’ve Lost that “Loving” Feeling Too
Before we start, put the following question in the back of your mind and let it sit there until we pick it up near the end. Gentlemen, don’t fall into the temptation of answering right away, because...
View ArticleDo we know who we are? — Humanity’s “Identity Crisis”
I’m getting old … and soft … and grumpy! I just got back from two weeks of “tenting it” and I’m hurtin’. Thirty years ago, all I needed was a backpack, sleeping bag, fishing rod and off I’d go. A...
View ArticleHockey, Football and other Religions!
So far during this series of articles we have been laying out a simple framework that incorporates all the unchanging elements of this universe we live in; elements that are not physical or measurable,...
View ArticleWhy are so many Christians confused today?
So far during this series of articles we have been laying out a simple framework that incorporates all the unchanging elements of this universe we live in; elements that are not physical or measurable,...
View ArticleThe Philosophy of Sex
Perhaps the only absolute statement you can make in our society which will not receive any disagreement is that human beings are sexual beings. No matter what a person’s political or philosophical...
View ArticleYou, Your Conscience and Pinocchio
Every once in a while a news story crosses my path that makes me wonder who exactly is writing this series. Just as I’m reaching the time to discuss a particular topic something happens that coincides...
View ArticleJohnny Be Good—An Introduction
Every day, in homes around the world and in every language, parents are ushering their children out the door and off to school, camp, a sleep-over or some other parent-free function with the time...
View ArticleWhat it means for Johnny to be Good
Back when this series first ran, I was being interviewed one morning by Brian Patrick, then-host of the Son Rise Morning Show in Cincinnati, Ohio. We had been discussing my article, Johnny Be Good, and...
View ArticleJohnny Be Good … and Loving
In my last article, I penned a story about Johnny and Sara that was meant to help make concrete the metaphysical and anthropological concepts that we have been discussing so far. Without further ado,...
View ArticleThe Eclipse of Happiness
I don’t think I’d be too far wrong in saying that most people in the Western world are not happy campers at the moment. Between the riots in Greece, the Occupy >>>Insert Town/Place...
View ArticleToday’s “God is Dead” Morality: Opening Act — Martin Luther
A few years ago I found myself in the doctor’s office lamenting over a growing list of aches, pains and other ailments. I asked the doctor why this was happening to me all of a sudden and he simply...
View ArticleOrigins of today’s “God is Dead” Morality: Machiavelli
Finally, it is over, and about time too! Canadians last week elected a new Prime Minister after a historically long eleven week campaign, or seventy-eight days to be exact. This campaign, initiated by...
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