In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

is that Science (the capital letter is essential) studies cold hard fact while religion is all about airy fairy speculation about things nobody has ever seen. I always think of these dogmatic pronouncement when I run across things the International Journal of Astrobiology. Astrobiology. For those of...

Steven Saylor FansSteven is hard at work on a follow-up novel to Roma....

So, this is it. Finally. 18 years of being a student will soon be over. Writing down ‘Anna Dominique Ouano CDU-CNSN’ on patients’ charts will come to an end. I’ll miss every single moment of it. OMG, sniff sniff. Right now, I’m cramming. Printing two case studies to be ...

Fr. Raymond de Souza Groks How the Obama Left is Figuring Out How to Use Religion The more religion becomes a consumer mode for accessorizing, rather than a matter of truth, the more Americans, including ignorant Catholics and Evangelical Emergent types, will have no problem with it. When Christiani...

A republic, madam--if you can keep it. - Benjamin Franklin I'm all for civic spiritedness and I think there's been a rather killjoy sourness from Right in the face of the spontaneous outbursts of public-mindedness by the supporters of Obama. A lot of it strikes me as, well, just the sort of thing yo...

Steve Hamm of Business Week narrows the National CTO finalists down to two today. And, based on what we currently understand the job description to be, both would be excellent picks. They are Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Silicon Valley networking giant Cisco Systems (CSCO), and...

Photo Source: AP This is unreal. Deo gratias that it appears everyone is ok... It is thought [that is, speculation] that a flock of geese got in the way of the big bird above on take off and both engines were affected. Three minutes into the flight passengers were told to brace themselves for a hard...

I'm working on more substantive, mathy posts, but in the meantime, I'm pissed, so I'm making a quick off-topic post. With the horrible things that are going on in Gaza right now, I've gotten a raft of antisemitic spam. Most of it has been through private mail, but some has been in comments on the bl...

One Cardinal Difference Between Christ and the New Age is that the New Age bids us to "abandon the past" while Christ bids us only to abandon our sins. That's because Christ knows that the thing which makes us uniquely human is our ability to remember the past. Not simply our own personal past (a do...