The Nature of Belief

If you were asked the question, “Do you believe in flossing?” what would you answer? Most of us, I expect, might be tempted to answer “It’s none of your business”, but if our interrogator was our dentist, we would probably accept it as a legitimate question, and we would have a place to start: we […]

Heaven and The Kingdom of God

Most religions include some concept of Heaven, which can be a destination after physical life has ended, or an ethereal state of being, or a relationship with the divine. Both Christianity and Islam traditionally describe it as Paradise with gardens, golden streets, and flowing streams. I am most familiar with the Christian version, based primarily […]

What this book is – and isn’t

I never set out to write a “religious” book, and fervently hope that it did not turn into one somewhere along the way. For that matter, I never intended to write a book at all. Its contents are the stories, love letters, family letters, vignettes, poems, and other works spanning 60 years of marriage, family, […]

Why I wrote this book

I have been writing all of my life – stories, letters, articles, eulogies, sermons, poems, thoughts and ideas that occupied my thoughts on long commutes, late evenings, and certainly on quiet trails far from the distractions of everyday life. I love words used well, the exploration of ideas, expressing my thoughts in a way that […]