A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era go….
What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?.
The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation inst….
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is ….
It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real sol….
If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frig….
I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. I….
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world..
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness….
Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world ….
I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith. The world we experience ….
Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed..
What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon..
Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of ….
I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It'….
As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning ….
There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of ….
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter..
The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is….
By thinking big, we can transform our world..
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing….