No Country Is Home

Feeling Greek is considerably less important than being truly human, and in any case no one who reflects deeply on the nature of things feels “at home” or “in synch” with any earthly environment, whether ethnic, geographical, or otherwise. Are...

A Blink of the Eye

I’m happy to know your retreat was a good one. I recommend making another soon. You said you cut the last one short owing to feeling tense and distracted. If the cycle of attachment is to be broken, however, it’s very important for you to stay the course...

Exciting the Germinal Power

“Bulverism”, as C. S. Lewis called it—that is, reductionism, of whatever kind—is indeed the bane of education these days, and at every level: from elementary school through graduate school. I recently had occasion to interview a number of...

Responding to the Inquisition

You’re interested in what my response might be to the recent censure by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of Peter Phan’s 2004 book Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue. I confess...

Words of a Fool

Your comments concerning the recent Martin Luther King, Jr Annual Service Day reminded me of an after-dinner talk I gave a few years ago for a chapter of the National Honor Society at a nearby Catholic school. I agree that it’s almost impossible not to be...