Whenever I write articles for this blog, I am tempted to open with anecdotes from Directed Studies, a program focusing on great books in...

In the introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Karl Marx famously characterized religion as ‘das...

Religion as an institution, while having declined since the Enlightenment, fundamentally affects individuals and the whole within most...

Blaise Pascal is one of the most famous, mathematicians, philosophers and theologians in the Western Canon. Following a period of...

An animal is struck by a severe disease in the wilderness. The disease is non-curable and terminal. Being of simple mind, the animal...

The Catholic Church has historically opposed efforts to defend LGBT rights. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s...

Editor's Note: In this essay, in a somewhat different tone to some of my other blog posts, I decided that it would be interesting to...

I Intro The origin of the authority of scripture is highly disputed. To many, it may not have any authority at all. To determine its just...

For nearly 1500 years prior to the Enlightenment, as well as during it, Christianity held a stranglehold on Western philosophy throughout...