Checks and balances delay the advent of certain political wrongs, but eventually the ball can't be kicked down the road any further.
Professor:
Query:
Unitarian minister Robert Fulghum wrote in his book From Beginning to End that although “we wrestled with [the idea of Holy Communion] in the church I served for many years,” still, “my congregation was open to experiencing some similar act of community in a religious setting."
In recent centuries the novel idea has entered the thought of many religious people that natural law is a Western pagan invention, unsupported by Scripture or by Christian tradition. To illustrate how far this notion falsifies history, I offer the following remark about Scripture from an unimpeachable traditional authority, one of the greatest Eastern F
The following story was passed on to me by a friend, who was quoting from a letter from his brother, a Japanese linguistics professor who had received it from his own friend, an American linguistics professor. The “he” in the anecdote is the American.
“The tests put upon candidates for the [Druidical] priesthood are immensely severe. For example, there is a test of poetical composition. The candidate must lie naked all night in a coffin-like box, only his nostrils protruding above the icy water with which it is filled, and with heavy stones laid on his chest. In this position he must compose a poem of considerable l
Doctoral Prelims: It Could Be Worse
Atheism, capital “A,” the denial of the creator God, capital “G,” always defaults to some form of theism, small “t” – I mean the embrace of a false god, small “g.” It doesn’t even seem to be possible to deny every unconditional commitment. Everyone bends the knee to something, whether or not he knows what it is.
Anscombe Society, Stanford University, 2014