Category: life

Keeping out the dust and cobwebs

July 22, 2008 | 3 comments

I’ve been out of my office for two weeks while teaching a class on Christian Science elsewhere in town. During this time, I stopped by to pick up my mail and check on the premises, but otherwise, had no time

Independence Day

July 4, 2008 | 1 comment

Two Scottish men served in WW I together, a professor and a chaplain. During the fighting they were captured and sent to a prison camp that housed American and British soldiers. The professor was put on the American side, and

You are spiritual

July 2, 2008 | 6 comments

One of the most liberating truths Christian Science teaches is that we are spiritual right now. People are commonly taught that they are mortal, fallible, and inevitably held hostage to sin, disease and death. Human experience confirms this belief with

Life is not a check off list

May 31, 2008 | 1 comment

When my wife and I talked about what we’d do while in NYC for two days over Memorial Day weekend, it was tempting to lay out an itinerary of places we wanted to see, and then hoof it around from