Faith, Reason & Progress: A Response to Neil Degrasse Tyson

Recently I stumbled over the very winsome and articulate Neil Degrasse Tyson.  He is a fantastic communicator; disarmingly casual, witty and entertaining.  He seems intelligent, yet without an air of condescension; clever and still humble enough to recognize that he doesn’t have all the answers.  And yet, for some reason he made the assertion inContinue reading “Faith, Reason & Progress: A Response to Neil Degrasse Tyson”

Spirituality

What is Spirituality? While the word is used by many different people in many different ways, broadly defined spirituality is a focus on and pursuit of the transcendent.  For some it is the eternal verses the present, the majestic verses the mundane, the immaterial verses the material.  For Plato it was the ideal which supersededContinue reading “Spirituality”