My Philosophy


"Go ahead, you can laugh all you want
I got my philosophy"
-Ben Folds

Topics of Interest: 

The Newness of Rediscovery

The Newness of Rediscovery


The Dialogues 

Alexander and Diogenes

The Correspondence of Paul and Seneca


The mirrour which flatters not

The Mirror Which Flatters Not (1639)

January: A Conversation with Myself

February: The Weight of Humility

March: The Weight of Truth

April: A Measure of Service

May: The Transience of Life

June: The Line Between Enough and Too Much

July: Fruits in Due Season

August: An Abundance of Gratitude

September: The Conditions of Fortitude

October: Bearing One Another’s Burdens

November: The Throne of Glass

December: 


Religious, Not Spiritual

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Essay 0 - Why "Religious, Not Spiritual"

Essay 1 - Religious Without the Supernatural: Core Beliefs and Commitments

Essay 2 - The Naturalist's View of Death

Essay 3 - The Human Search for Meaning

Essay 4 - The Shape of Life: Ritual, Discipline, and the Making of the Self

Essay 5 - No Arc but Our Own

Essay 6 - The Human Work of Meaning

Essay 7 - The Sacred Work of Community

Essay 8 - Payday Someday

Essay 9 - The Human Face of Beauty

Essay 10 - A Way of Life

Essay 11 - The Hill That Wasn't There

Essay 12 - The Hands of God, The Hands of Man

Essay 13 - A Cultivated Life

Essay 14 - Where Will You Spend Eternity?

Essay 15 - Nothing Stands Alone

Essay 16 - The Extra Psalm

Essay 17 - The Art of Belief

Essay 18 - The Courage to be Human


Miscellaneous 

Streaming the Sacred: The Chosen as a Modern Gospel

Valley of the Yosemite (1864)

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1855)

Cincinnatus Receiving Deputies of the Senate (1843)

Religious, Not Spiritual: A Q&A

What Lies Within Us (2021)