This episode is a response to a video by Big Think wherein they interviewed Paul Bloom about the subject of suffering and its virtues.

Men do their best to avoid the necessity of living by faith. In this episode, we discuss this dilemma and extol the virtues of faith.

This episode is a response to a book named Corruptible - Who Gets Power and Why It Changes Us by Brian Klaas. I found Brian on a YouTube video by Big Think. The name of the video is Why Psychopaths Rise to Power.

Seeing through a veil and being seen.

I recently listened to a YouTube video by Big Think. In the video, they interviewed Bruce Feiler who wrote the book The Secrets of Happy Families. This episode is a response to some of his thoughts.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an organ in your own body? Or a rock? Or a tree? In this episode, I share some ponderings that I had a few years back upon the subject of light and how it reaches places that we would not expect.

In this episode, I speak of the strange injunction that we flee, but not in haste. It is a paradox since flight implies haste. So how do we run away slowly? And why?

This is a little piece I wrote years ago. As I listened to it again, I was struck by the connection I made those years ago. Hope you enjoy!

Why I hesitate to Refer to God

I don't consider this podcast to be ecclesiastical. It is more practical than that. So why do I speak of God?