"I don't get it. All of the people I know and don't respect are Christians. And that even includes my family. But I respect you ... and you're a Christian. Explain that to me." Those were my friend's opening words at breakfast. Thankfully, I didn't lose my appetite.

We are...

The problem with dating is that it's really hard to know who the person is when they are not trying to impress you. I mean when she removes the fake nails, fake hair, fake lashes, fake eyes, and fake lips claiming "Baby, I'm still the same person," you might start...

Peace, conflict resolution and reconciliation have been on my mind a lot lately. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't have any answers. So I wanted to ask two open questions to source the power, knowledge and experience of the crowd with some of the seemingly intractable...

I want to take a break from the usual does-science-contradict-faith controversies and look at the intersection of faith and science in another way ... from the perspective of the Kony 2012 campaign.

I've been studying and researching faith for a few years now, and though I am not...

I am neither an opposing critic nor an uncritical proponent of Invisible Children. My role is more nuanced. To borrow a phrase from Cornel West, I'm a critical supporter. We sometimes forget that we can support a person or a group and synchronously criticize certain actions,...

I saw this question while rummaging for funding opportunities on the Templeton Foundation website. They have a Big Questions Essay Series which I encourage everyone to read through. I just finished reading and pondering every essay addressing the question "Does science make belief in...

I am sitting at a dinner party full of lawyers, scientists and artists. An interesting debate breaks out between the "arts and letters" of academia and science. One charismatic lawyer starts it.

"We really need more scientists in the United States. Everything is better with science and we really lack...

"A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery." --Gabriel Marcel

I love that quote. It reminds me that getting to Mars is a problem, a science and engineering...

Science is naturally skeptical, initially couched in doubt. The goal in science, however, is to leave a state of doubt or ignorance and, through testing and proof, come to know truth.
Science is uncomfortable with doubt.

In law, given limited time, evidence, arguments, testimonies and the right to speedy...

The Harvard Seal has the word VERITAS spread out over three books. What's interesting is that originally this design showed two books open and the third overturned. This design symbolized the fact that not everything was available or open to the reason and logic of man (humanism) or to man's...