When I was a lad I acquired a rather unfortunate funeral-to-wedding
ratio, so I have spent this summer trying to fix it. While in the rest of the
country, the ...
I don’t know about you, but I find that summer vacations sometimes drag a little. Back in May, I returned from Cambridge, MA to the village in which I grew up,...
We knelt together at the first Mass of many in a little church in Roncesvalles, Spain, grateful not to be standing after having walked over the Pyrenees in the...
Last summer I wrote
about trekking through the Cambridgeshire fens with a bicycle, cows, and G.K.
Chesterton. This summer brings me back to the same story—sort...
If Nietzsche’s madman ran into the middle of Harvard Yard, waving his iPhone flashlight above his head and yelling, “God is dead!”, not even the tourists milli...
I’ve spent a while pondering two questions:
Why do so many scientists embrace naturalism?
Why do so many Christians believe before/without carefully investiga...
The perception that religion and science conflict usually stems from the idea that religion is obsolete. Science, after all, has shown that the world wasn’t cr...
Yann Martel’s fictional account of the extraordinary life of Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patel begins in the small Indian town of Pondicherry, when a backpacking writ...
Professor Ian H. Hutchinson of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published the book, Can A Scientist Believ...