Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice of the mean between two extremes, i.e., a mean relative to…
Category: Philosophy
Chesed: Plato on Love
Do you know the wise woman Diotima, a fictional character in Plato’s dialogue Symposium? Six learned, drunken men discuss their…
Is God Privileged?
What do we teach about how power works? What do we teach about how a Higher Power works? Terrible events…
Letters from the Front
This Remembrance Day, I’m remembering two World War II veterans, my father and my uncle. Just six months ago, my…
Interpreting Kohelet
At Sukkot, it is traditional to study the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes). The original reason for this tradition is mysterious…
Mystics and the Mind
Can mysticism save the world? That is one of many questions I discussed in my recent talk at the Vancouver…
What I Believe
Here’s a new Facebook challenge. List ten core principles of your spiritual life. Or your personal theology. Or your lived…
Dove Territory
Crows have colonized Vancouver. Superimposed on the human city is an entire crow city, divided into family territories. During the…
The Blind God
A night time dream, July 8, 2014: We arrive home from a trip. Our little cat Keely, a lively green-eyed…