Archive for: August 2008

Survival instinct

Is there a God who embraces us when we cry out in the darkness, or is there just the empty echo of our own voices? Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has found a surprising answer to that question.
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Deconstructing Woody

In a recent interview for Newsweek, Woody Allen talks about the "existential horror of being alive."
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Are we alone?

God is (unhelpfully) invisible and apparently silent. When I am sitting on a rock in the desert sun, I may believe God is watching, I may even believe there are leprechauns hiding among the trees, but that hardly makes it so. Are we alone?
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No going back

Thoughts and observations while hiking in Madera Canyon.
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Political psychosis

Is a new ad by the McCain campaign meant to strike fear in the hearts of evangelicals?
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What are you worth?

The Judeo-Christian concept of human worth is that we are God's priceless, crowning act of creation. The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a more utilitarian view, valuing human beings at $7.22 million each. So, which is it? Are we priceless, or are we mere commodities, stamped with a price tag like everything else?
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