[…] science and religion and magic, Card attempts here to penetrate the surface of religious narrative and analyze the underlying human motivations. Card insists that his readers recognize both surface and substance when he structures his story in […]
[…] AIDS also seems to require prolonged exposure, despite some documented evidence of apparent exceptions. To contract the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV—the AIDS pre cursor virus) individuals must exchange bodily fluids—generally blood or semen—with infected […]
[…] save all humans in all times and places. Yet the original law must be retained to order human lives, and the Jews have given us that law. Thus, both eternal salvation (through Christ) and […]
[…] powerful enough to help us is also powerful enough to harm us. How can one trust fallible human beings to fiddle around in the mind and soul? Yet when one undergoes surgery and is […]
[…] Saints, and other Christians, learned from this kafkaesque prison society about the nearness of God and the human condition. These four decades reveal extraordinary examples of faith, commitment, sacrifice, patience, familial and brotherly love, […]
[…] tradition. Such a testimonial vision from God is not designed to address the empirical world of its human participants and cannot lend itself to historical-critical assessment. How ever, each witness had subsequent experiences which […]
[…] fully achieved. The edition cited here is William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: New American Library, 1958). I am grateful to Syracuse University Press for permission […]
[…] be the mother of us all, was a plural mate. A recent study of the evolution of human sexuality concludes, however, that while modern man is often culturally obliged to be monogamous, he may […]
[…] not choose their sexual orientation, cannot change it, and constitute a quite normal but minority expression of human sexuality, it is clear that heterosexual prejudice against homosexuals must take its place alongside witchcraft, slavery, […]
[…] thoughts out in appropriate doses. Still, “milk before meat” need not mean that the meatier parts of human intellectual experience be postponed forever. An honest attempt to clarify both the immediate and the eternal […]