To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here How Much Land Does a Man Need? That’s the title of a short story written in 1886 by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It’s only a few pages long. But James Joyce, one of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers, declared it to be “the greatest story that the literature of the world knows.” Perhaps that’s… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, who died last year at age 82, was one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the New Atheism. Along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens, he campaigned relentlessly for the discrediting of religion (Christianity in particular) as a valid way to… Read more »
Year after year Stumpy and Martha attended the fair in their home state, and every summer it was the same story. Stumpy was tantalized by the old-fashioned biplane in which anybody could take a ride for ten dollars, and Martha was disgusted by such an obvious waste of money. “Ten dollars is ten dollars,” she would always say. And Stumpy would go… Read more »
