Occupation: Professor Birth: 1957
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Li….
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking surv….
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is….
What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into..
Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image..
God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy..
The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is,….
A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and b….
Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful….
What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love..
Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature..