In Praise of the Wise Fool

“The Fool who persists in his folly will become wise.” (William Blake) Few archetypal images are as perennial and ubiquitous as that of the Fool. Some variation of this character has appeared in the stories and myths of virtually every culture and...

Just a Tiny Spark

And so it comes again, the shortest day and the longest night… the Winter Solstice, inspiration for countless festivals celebrating the rebirth of the light at this darkest time of the year. Often the images that people are drawn to when they think of light at...

Faith as a Verb

I recently came upon an article in the Washington Post about an atmospheric scientist named Kathrine Hayhoe. Hayhoe, who is a director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, is also a lead author of the U.S. government’s latest...