For those who read the Bible literally, and take every word at face value, I apologize in advance for my efforts to disentangle what I perceive […]
If you want to examine the religious foundations of the Western world, you’d probably begin with the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The story of a great world flood is one that appears almost universally, in nearly every culture. So either it really happened, although the geological evidence […]
The story of Adam and Eve is one that every child hears. Seemingly simple on its surface, the age old myth contains layers and layers of […]