My life as a Greek Orthodox Christian began with great pomp and circumstance, when just two weeks after I made my debut into the world, a priest gravely dipped ...
Napoleon once famously said that history is the account of the battle as described by the victors. The human understanding of time is inextricably tied to the w...
(Or, Why Steven Pinker Has One)
Some months ago, I received a check for several hundred dollars from Harvard University, because I had been authorized by Presi...
Is the expression “Christian mind” an oxymoron at Harvard? Can the two entities coexist not only in the abstract, but also within the individual? In the rewardi...
When Jesus Came to Harvard by Harvey Cox. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
In When Jesus Came to Harvard, Harvey Cox, currently a Professor of Divinity at the Harvard ...
As a child, I was fascinated with monsters. And not just any monster would do—it had to be big, ferocious, and savage, capable of drawing fearful gasps from its...
Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Focus Features, 2005.
A few Saturday mornings ago at a local coffee shop, I overheard a group of middle aged men discussing...
Not even the pouring-down rain could stop the blazing furnace. Bent over, heaving heavy breaths into the crisp autumn air, Daniel wished for a swell of water to...
Such a glorious deception
The heavens stare down
at their reflection
While little do they know or see
The life so far below that be
Beneath the glossy image lie...
A hornets’ nest is easily disturbed. There is a balm
in drums below the loam. It froths forth, settles,
grows. Say the moon makes symphonies of waves
and I will...
