The Well Run Dry

Two men went up into the temple to pray,  one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.   The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself...

Here is a link to a couple of interviews of another former member of the Assemblies of George Geftakys , who describes the horrible upbring...

(Pardon the title.  I've been listening to some old Billy Joel lately...) I have been following Cosmic Connies' blog Whirled Musings...

This post will be short.  I am almost choking to death on grad school and work, and today I am more than a little sleep-deprived.  But in ke...

Among the animals there are natural-born predators - animals who are specifically designed to live by eating other animals.  They are incap...

I'm glad that many people read my last post.  After I wrote it, I was a bit embarrassed, as it seemed to me that my thinking wasn't ...

It can be devilishly easy to wreck a culture, and devilishly hard to clean it up afterward.  If you want to wreck a culture, it helps to be...

I am very busy with grad school just now, so I won't be able to write a new post this week.  However, grad school (and self education in...

The Russian military intervention in Syria has produced a lot of interesting fallout.  It is now becoming clear that the militants whom Russ...

So, lately I've been in dialogue with a retired clergyman of a mainstream American church.  He and I have had, shall we say, a more than...

Now we come again to a theme which we have explored in previous posts on this blog, namely, the role and purpose of American civil relig...

The attitudes of a culture toward the people it touches are seen in the impact that culture has on the people and things it touches. Sometim...

I was reading a few of my favorite blogs this week when I stumbled on the news that the LAPD had recently shot an unarmed homeless African-...

For the last three months, the main focus of the posts on this blog has been the psychological examination of the public American persona....

I'm a bit tied up with an ongoing research project, so here's another repost from way back.  I think it's particularly relevant ...