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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: faith

The Nothing That Is

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
—Billy Graham
I’m not talking about unbelief. I don’t even think that statement is true anymore (the [...]

Believe Your Own Adventure

Introducing myself in my first MFA workshop, I was prompted to say my genre of writing. I stumbled and self-effaced, then spat out that e-mail is my genre. Stretching the definition of genre, this seems correct. I’ve disseminated some good stuff via the send button. This one is a response to [...]

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t

From this article, this statement:

David J. Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif., and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, told me in an e-mail message, “I have more confidence in the methods of science, based on the amazing record of science and its ability over the centuries [...]