I’ve taken up singing lessons and discovered something I never knew about myself: that I can actually sing (well, within reason. I can...

You’ve got to admit it; The Scopes Monkey Trial is a brilliant name. Not a fair one, (no monkey was on trial), but catchy nonetheless.  ...

We are not very good at accepting difference, or so writes the paleoanthropologist, Ludovik Slimak in his book, The Naked Neanderthal ....

What I’m watching I’m trying to wean myself off the television but it isn’t working. You know how it is. After a long day, you want to...

I’m fascinated by Trump’s MAGA crowd. Their faith in him seems unshakeable. It doesn’t matter what he does, they keep wearing their hats...

Now Liberation Day is over and we are back to our daily lives, I thought I’d write about hope. We live in a world of tragedy where...

Jesus or Machiavelli?   My niece sent me a heart-felt message the other day. It was full of frustration and disappointment. She wrote,...

These days, world politics feels like a crash-course in leadership. We are getting quite a display from the Trump-method to the...

Please, let’s keep God out of politics!   I don’t know about you, but I was fascinated by a recent theological scrap on X. I was also...

Trump’s chariot is out of control.   Plato and Trump? Not a friendship made in heaven. Plato would have disliked him about as much as...

Are human beings unique?   I’m sitting here on the farm in Argentina, rather upset about a wild boar. I’ll explain. The farmhand adopted...

My conscience told me to do it!   We’re all familiar with the picture of two angels sitting on our shoulders. One angel tempts us with...

Why bother to be moral?   Once upon a time, a shepherd called Gyges finds a cave in the mountain. He ventures inside and discovers a tomb...

The clock is ticking…   Here is challenge for New Year’s Eve: define the word ‘time’. Don’t look it up in the dictionary, just think...

The Man-God: does it make sense?   It’s the run-up to Christmas, so I thought I’d see if philosophy can make sense of the Incarnation...

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.  [Nehru]   I like this quote. It’s...

Here’s a confession. I heard and saw my mother after her death. The experience is as true as anything I’ve experienced and deeply...

Here’s a moral quandary.   In 2014, Douglas Perry was accused of three counts of murder in the USA. Yet when it came to court, it wasn’t...

Like many people, I’m fascinated by the octopus. It’s such a bizarre, intelligent creature and yet it lacks a central nervous system and...