Imagine there’s no heaven
Gustave Doré, Rosa Celeste: Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the Empyrean, 1892. The big red X is of 21st century provenance. Source: Wikimedia Commons What makes a Christian, a Christian? More precisely:...
View ArticleWhat we have here is a failure to disbelieve
This jolly fellow is Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar. He was the first to write serious commentaries on the work of Pseudo-Dionysius, who himself (whoever...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins on science as religion
Some years ago, Richard Dawkins wrote an article for the Humanist. The essay addresses the question, Is Science a Religion? His answer is No, and we here at psnt.net agree with him. There is a sense in...
View ArticleAdvent I: The waiting may not be, in fact, the hardest part
The annunciation to Zechariah. Gabriel stands on the left, Zechariah on the right. I’m not sure what the birds signify, but I like them. Ethiopian Orthodox icon, ca. 1700. Image source: Wikimedia...
View ArticleThe path of disbelief
Thomas Struth, Rothko Chapel, Houston, 2007. Look here for a nice retrospective of Struth’s works; here for an overview of Mark Rothko‘s career; and here for information about the Rothko Chapel In the...
View ArticleLive from New York: An atheist in free fall
This, from the New York Public Library: Author Mark Salzman (Iron and Silk, The Soloist, Lying Awake), became a stay-at-home parent in 2001. Eight years and three failed book manuscripts later, he had...
View ArticleBig Head Todd and the mass extinction problem
Todd Park Mohr of Big Head Todd and the Monsters recording at Ardent Studios in Memphis. I missed BHTM back in the 1990’s when they had their major-scale success; I blame graduate school for this. But...
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