The history of language is the history of humanity. It’s what separates us from the worms and the beasts. The philosopher Wittgenstein famously said that without […]
Limericks and poetry that examine religious questions and religious traditions from around the world.
In Germany, he is something like William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin all rolled into one. But in America, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) enjoys […]
There’s a curious connection between conscience and consciousness. The capacity for guilt and remorse is a necessary condition for mindful beings. Freudians label it the superego. […]
Not every collection of poetry includes a chapter of Limericks about the Bible. And that’s unfortunate. Perhaps we can blame the patriarchy. There’s a long and […]
Some say there’s no greater force for evil in the world than religion. Consider the Hundred Years War, the extermination of indigenous peoples, the patriarchy. At […]
Where did we come from and where are we going? What causes me to write limericks with an obsessive single-mindedness? And why a series of limericks […]