Tag Archives: God
Making Up the Afterlife: David Eagleman’s SUM
One of my favorite books is Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams, in which Lightman, an MIT physicist, imagines Einstein considering multiple modes of experiencing time. Time moves backwards, in endless repetition, in varying cycles of stunning strangeness. Einstein’s Dreams is an … Continue reading
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God Spoke to Me: The Crisis of Knowing How We Know – 3
This morning, I’m not writing about what I said I was going to write about. Instead, I offer you, hot off the presses of my experience, a case study…an experience in knowing. Years ago, I was tasked with writing a … Continue reading
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Counting on the Sublime
The word “sublime” came across the Facebook news feed this morning. I fell in love with “the sublime” in an old treatise, either 1st or 3rd century CE, attributed to a Greek tradition calls Longinus. On the Sublime lifted me … Continue reading
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How to Pray
The disciples wondered how to pray, and asked Jesus to teach them. The gospel of Matthew records the version of Jesus’ reply we know as The Lord’s Prayer. Simple, direct, covers all the bases; praise, petition, and ascribing appropriate … Continue reading
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Learning to Work on Your Work
So I went from full time to half time to all-the-time. From lots of people everyday to hardly any people any day. From interactions with people focused primarily on what some would call “spirituality” to interactions based on whatever … Continue reading
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