My lofty hope in writing this essay is to shed light on the confrontation between traditional Christianity and progressive homosexuality in the American context. Ultimately, I wish to suggest that perhaps these two embattled communities need one another more than they need the cultural positions of power for which they vociferously vie, amidst gnashing of…
A Struggle with Identity
To my mind, the key controversy of our time revolves around the notion of identity. Identity politics seems to be the rule of the day. But what is meant by identity? How does one define himself? In the existential sense, this is the familiar confrontation of the self with the self. This confrontation manifests itself…
Deliberating Liberty
Since I was a child, I have long heard of the all-encompassing Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. My first thought is always that this is an imprecise translation of the great command of Christ, to love thy neighbor as thyself. The difference the word “love” makes in…
A Metaphor of Monkeys
Often I have heard a metaphorical story employed to show the silliness in continuing with long supposed dead traditions and customs. It involves monkeys (always so nearly an equivalent for humans), and goes something like the following. Several scientists, studying the behavior of a certain species of prime-ape, place three monkeys in a metal cage,…
Appreciating Aliens
The Greater Man On this rather uneventful and disturbingly typical subway ride, a Mr. Edward Turner could not help but notice that a peculiar man in a derby hat sat across from him—staring. Indeed, the stranger’s glare seemed to be hungrily consuming his nose. When Edward finally raised his eyes to survey the stranger,…
Portfolio//External Worlds
1. Since the phenomena of The Matrix, the possibility of a machine simulating the world we know and all our sensory experience is a fun and popular concept to consider. While we take it lightly, it does present a problem when we seriously consider, how can we know this is the actual world we are…
The Pursuit of Thought 