By Merlin Buhl As soon as I turned the ignition key, the speakers erupted to life with thunderous noise spewing a rap song. As I struggled to find the volume knob, I quickly noticed that the f-word was being used more than if a sailor had smashed his thumb with a hammer. While I am…
By Laura A. Roser Blaise Pascal’s Views on Rationality Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, inventor, physicist, writer, and Christian philosopher, wrote in his work Pensées (“Thoughts”) in 1660-62: Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Simultaneously Embracing Reason and Lack of Reason Life is full of…
By J. Robert Moon Realistic Expectations for Our Spiritual Legacy I stare out the window from my seat on the Delta flight from Atlanta to St. Louis, realizing I am still in shock. Four hours ago, I received the unexpected call that my dad died while he and my mother were visiting relatives in Branson, Missouri….
