Month: August 2019
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We Are Busy People Despite What The Research Says
Research suggests that we’re not as objectively busy as we think we are. Accepting the research findings, Kyle Kowalski then provides hypotheses, which seek to explain why we might feel so busy anyway. My tack? It’s more elemental. I simply reject the premise upon which the research findings are based. It’s not strictly a question of measuring how…
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In Search Of A Central Question
Imagine this. It’s just barely 1970, you’ve been living in San Francisco, and here have come psychedelics, hippies, and Eastern religions all seemingly out of nowhere. You want to know, don’t you?, what’s going on and what it means for individual and collective human development. Guess what? You don’t have to exert your imagine too much…
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Idolatry And The Dynamics Of Faith
The theologian Paul Tillich opens his book The Dynamics of Faith (1956) by asserting that “[f]aith is a state of being ultimately concerned.” Idolatry he defines as the elevation of a matter of provisional concern to one of ultimate concern. It is 1956, just 12 years after WWII, and Tillich, born a German, is living and teaching…
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Sadder Still Is Humanism
You look around but find no magic. No animated rocks or trees. No spells cast. No she-devils howling in the night. You say to yourself that you have no evidence of deities or of a deity. You label it “QED” and close the book on ‘this utter nonsense.’ Meanwhile, the natural world goes on, you…
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In A Dream, I See My Sister Again
In a dream, I see my sister again. Jen, who died in 2014, and I are sitting at the bar table in the kitchen back in Platteville, Wisconsin, the small town in which we grew up, and I am trying to convince her to see, to grant, to accept that sunyata is God. She is…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 