I claim to be a Christian. What does that label really mean?Does it imply something about my politics? Does it tell you what sort of a car I drive? Is it a label sewn into my clothes, like the once-celebrated label of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from this 1981 ad campaign? ... Continue reading
Survival instinct
August 28, 2008 By 2 Comments
[Joe Eszterhas] plopped down on a curb and cried. Sobbed, even. And for the first time since he was a child, he prayed: "Please God, help me."Mr. Eszterhas was shocked by his own prayer."I couldn't believe I'd said it. I didn't know why I'd said it. I'd never said it before," he ... Continue reading
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
December 13, 2005 By
Oliver Sacks studies the mind. The world-famous neurologist, lecturer and author of Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, The Island of the Colorblind, and others, has spent his life pondering how electro-chemical neurons firing in the brain can produce consciousness, identity, emotion and ... Continue reading
