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It’s hard to find a really good way to celebrate a secular Easter.  The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ are not the stuff of simple and lightweight symbols. Easter transmits a complex message, transported through time through a sacrament of blood-wine and body-bread on an altar derived from a sacrificial cult. The best the…

“There’s a big possum in the courtyard,” Annie said. I came to the door and looked out.  Sure enough, the marsupial denizen was poddling out the gate toward the street.  She wasn’t that big, but she was indeed a possum.  Fast for a possum is slow for almost anything else, so with a little spurt…

There is another dimension. It is not the third dimension. It is not the fourth, or the fifth dimension. It does violence to this dimension, in a sense, to give it a number. This is the dimension where number is nonexistent. In the first two or three dimensions, number is required and defining. Length, width,…

…and he is like Jesus. Neither statement is to be taken for granted, and both are very significant for life in this generation. The knowledge/sense/preference/belief that there is a God is a choice.  That is to say, there is no absolutely compelling evidence in the same way that you could say, for example, “There is…