Schismogenesis: Seeing How We’ve Got Nothing in Common

Lived Experience / Regular Experience

Catch phrases often seem to come out of nowhere and catch on fast, leaving some of us…

Stoicism and the Story We Tell Ourselves

Stoic philosophy is based on two assertions. First, you are telling yourself a story…

Marcus Aurelius on Relatives

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful…

Theodicy: Why Bad Things Happen to . . . Everybody

Religionless Imagination

The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer justly gets credit for changing the conversation in post-World War II…

Unexamined Faith and Continuous Revelation

When William Ellery Channing gave his famous Baltimore ordination sermon, nowadays…