Continuing my series featuring selections from my new book, Love, Actually, here’s Chapter Seven:
Leaving Evil Behind Us
In hard times people are dealing with serious conflict and…they’ll often see themselves as the good side against the evil side. I mean, that of course means you can’t negotiate a conflict. It means your enemies aren’t really quite human. [...]
Continuing my series featuring selections from my new book, Love, Actually, here’s Chapter Six:
Lighting a Fire Under Love
[O]ffenses committed by juveniles under the age of 18 do not merit the death penalty. The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.[1] [...]
Continuing my series featuring selections from my new book, Love, Actually, here’s Chapter Five:
Morality Alfresco
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
-Bill Maher
In Chapter Three, I used the expression, “inner light,” to describe some awareness it is theorized God has put inside you and me to give us an independent [...]
Continuing my series featuring selections from my new book, Love, Actually, here’s Chapter Four:
The Intellectual Challenge of Hope
All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
-Huckleberry Finn, when he decides not to give Jim up.
Might morality be something that is more organic, more essential to humanity than religion?
In the Bible it is claimed, “God is love,”[1] [...]
Continuing my series featuring selections from my new book, Love, Actually, here’s Chapter Three:
Poor Foundations for Faith
God has good reason to give us faith, for there is someone completely trustworthy for us to believe in and be saved by. The faith he gives us is rooted in his Son, who became flesh for our [...]
Oh, it’s about time. Finally. After, oh, only about two years of telling people my new book is just about finished, it’s here!
What could I possibly be writing a book about, you may ask, if I’ve never given you a clue. No, it’s not another stormy and dark memoir. It’s not fiction. I’ve never actually [...]
…I know I haven’t blogged for such a long time, but I am deeply involved with a large project that will actually transform this site. This entry, unplanned, is one of those writings events just sort of ambushed me into. It’s good, though, and, in form with what is maybe my blog’s main theme, it [...]
A reading group I participate in recently considered a play by Nicholas Kazan, called, “Blood Moon.”
In the first act, a young woman is subjected to a series of humiliations, and she is then brutally raped. In the second act, she invites the rapist for dinner and verbally enlightens him on the horrendous [...]
