The Nestorian Stele
After making my way from Beijing, Mount Tai, Qufu and Harbin in the east of China, I took a plane to one of the country’s former capitals, Xi’an. This was
The Past – behind us temporally, around us spatially
In a world that glorifies the future, treasures progress and tends to look down its nose at the past, we are presented with a literally astronomical paradox. Since the Age
The Faux Humility of Arrogant Scientism
Carl Sagan (1934-96) Humility is easily the most basic of the virtues, as charity is the highest. They are similar, however, in one thing. Both must display their acts with
Things We Cannot Learn from the James Webb Telescope
For two of my adolescent years I was convinced I would become an astronomer. I even saved up over 200 dollars to buy a reflector telescope. Although other intrusive events
The Vortex of Conspiratorial Thought
For any child of Abraham, the idea that hell is in a conspiracy against heaven is a commonplace. It is in the category of “so what else is new?” Still,
Orthodoxy and Philosophy
My introduction to a forthcoming new English edition of Chesterton’s ORTHODOXY in Brazil: There are many good reasons for reading Chesterton, but they can be quite different, even divergent. Some
Empirical Easter – 2022
A common misunderstanding of Christianity views it as nothing more than belief in a series of abstract truths regarding a God who is one and three, a person who is
God is not a god (nor is any angel)
The Creator God who was revealed to the Jews, and the Incarnate God revealed to Christians, is not a “god,” nor even the greatest and most powerful of the
Relation – The Weakest Category with the Greatest Implications
I was invited to participate in the International Open Seminar on Semiotics 2022 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the death of philosopher and semiotician John Deely (1942-2017).
Shakespeare – a Comedy and a Tragedy
“A Comedy and a Tragedy” – as far as life goes, another word for it might be status quo. To round off our Great Books mini-course, we allow Shakespeare to
The Canterbury Pilgrims Have Arrived
After a long break, the Humanities lectures of Quinn and Senior have just caught up with Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales of the 14th century (scroll down here). The cycle of