Category: Religion & Spirituality
The Critique of Spiritual Reason
What are spiritual experiences, and what is faith? Can spiritual experiences justify faith, and can faith guide or justify belief or action?
The Ideology of Anti-Heretical Crusade in the 1838 Mormon War
“Up, awake, ye defenders of Zion!The foe’s at the door of your homes;Let each heart be the heart of a lion,Unyielding and proud as he roams.Remember the trials of Missouri;Forget not the courage of Nauvoo…Tho, assisted by legions infernal,The plundering foemen advance,With a host from the regions eternalWe’ll scatter their troops at a glanceBy His…
Sounds of Silence
What should we do with the inexpressible?
Poverty as Wealth
Reflections on the life of the Zen monk Taneda Santōka
The Incompatibility of Kantianism and Christianity
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. — Matthew 5:48 I’m about to argue that one cannot be a Christian and a Kantian at the same time. Before I do that, we’ll need some definitions: First, as deontology, or duty-based ethics, is a broad field, I’ll limit it to…