In the Western world it is well known that the great teachers often used stories and parables to convey deeper meanings. The parables of Jesus in the New Testament, the saints’ lives written in the ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

There is one thing about ambiguity. Umm, no. By definition an ambiguous situation means there is more than one component. The factors differ and are not resolvable. Take the phenomenon of light. It ...

Life can be hard for anyone. That much is given. But then a question is raised from this Sunday’s first reading: Is striving too hard to achieve something in life also meaningless? Wisdom literature ...

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, both written in the 1990s, is eerily familiar—a failing education system, the dissolving of ...

I want to say a few words about wisdom, a concept often described as the opposite of foolishness (the main focus of this column). Few concepts have been written about more than wisdom, but if you read ...

The best book that I read in 2025 was an unexpected gem — a nugget of wisdom. Lots of wisdom. It’s called Seeking Wisdom: The ...

In both Jewish and Chinese traditions, the concept of polarity—Heaven and Earth, masculine and feminine, giver and receiver—is central to understanding the fabric of reality. While modern culture ...

I want to say a few words about wisdom, a concept often described as the opposite of foolishness (the main focus of this column). Few concepts have been written about more than wisdom, but if you read ...