One of my favorite blog posts deals with Meister Eckhart and the whole existence/non-existence battle between theologians, philosophers, etc. A few days ago, I received an email from someone who was presenting a similar argument to a professor at a Catholic university and was inquiring about any additional evidence/thoughts backing up Eckhart's conclusions. After a bit of back-and-forth, the last email I sent to him provided what I felt was a solid ...

Philosophy can be disbursed into many subdivisions of scrutiny (logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, rhetoric), but no such category reposes so much substratum for contention and controversy as that of ontology. And no ontological question has been given more cognizance than that of the existence of God.

But can God veraciously be proven to exist? Can we really put pen to paper and jot down cogent statements of non-controversial premises and come up with ...

I was once told by a wise woman that there are only two things that you can't talk about with others: religion and politics. With either one, you're bound to step on toes and cause arguments that are based in nothing more than personal preference and deep-seated bias. Unfortunately I've always been one to throw around religion in casual thoughts and words - a by-product of my education and interests - and politics, with ...

Religion is a wonderful and dangerous thing. Throughout time immeasurable religion has turned the poor into the rich, the blind into the sighted, and the lost into leaders through the sheer power of faith.

Religion, however, is only an idea - a faith based on an intricate map of values, culture, and history. It becomes dangerous when followers become servants; or when worship wanders from the infinite design into a more human form. How often do ...