In the spring of 1751, two Frenchmen, Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert, published the first volume of the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. When their project was completed 21 years later, the Encyclopédie boasted 28 volumes with 71,818 articles covering the full breadth of human knowledge …
In the summer of 2001, I found myself thinking intentionally about transition for the first time in my life. I had just finished my sophomore year of high school, and people were asking me more often about my plans for college …
Back when I was a student at Wichita (Kan.) State University in the mid-1970s, students (and faculty) from the philosophy department used to debate students (and faculty) from the psychology department at the student union about free will vs. determinism …
We are parents of young adult sons who were mild on the autism spectrum but now have significantly recovered. We write to raise awareness and concerns about the article “We’re All Connected and Therefore All Potentially Infected” …
I wish I could say that people come to church for my sermons. The pews are filled instead because we want to be there to hear the prayers, sharing aloud our joys and concerns, bringing them before God and receiving each voice as an invitation into the body of Christ. Through prayer our lives are mingled, becoming part of one another …
