Jan
08
2016
Greg and the chefs are great. But I do so hate Masterchef. The economic recovery since 2008 has been driven almost entirely by the spending of the rich. Between 2008 and 2012 spending by the top 5% in the...
Jan
06
2016
The Epiphany is a feast of light. No biblical scholar would think that the story of the three wise men and the star is literally true. But that doesn’t mean it is totally untrue either. Facts tell us truths...
Jan
04
2016
Quantum physics tells us that the deeper dimensions of reality are outside space and time. The discovery of nonlocality shows us that subatomic entities can communicate with each other instantaneously even though separated by the whole universe. At all...
Jan
03
2016
Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and ‘one body,’ will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but...
Jan
02
2016
Eve did indeed come out of Adam's rib. How so? Ancient peoples didn't think literally as we do but symbolically. The name Adam literally means soil or earth in the Hebrew, and Eve comes from Hebrew Hava which means...
Jan
02
2016
What I can’t understand is why it is when the scientists are now telling us virtually unanimously that climate change is man made, and if we don’t deal decisively with it our unfortunate children will inherit an earth so...
Jan
01
2016
Unfortunately the climate conference in Paris has, if anything, made the situation worse rather than better. It has engendered an atmosphere of complacency and self-congratulation, and vague well-wishing rather than firm and immediate binding commitments, which is the very...
Jan
01
2016
Because Galileo was the first great experimentalist in the history of science people often think of him as if he had the mentality of a research student at MIT or Imperial. He didn’t. He was above all things a...
Dec
28
2015
Thanks A.C. Grayling and Richard Dawkins for making me laugh so much. It is the comedy of total condemnation in the most confident tones of subjects about which the hanging judges give every appearance of knowing so little. A.C....
Dec
27
2015
A Downside that will never come again. Although in my youth I studied medieval history, it is only now, looking back on my time in the school and the years when I joined the monastery in the late fifties, that...