Our Human Predicament
Last month, at the invitation of the V.V. Raman, the president of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (www.iras.org), I wrote the following piece on humanity’s predicament. There are many other good pieces on the IRAS website. See http://www.iras.org/predicament.html. Our Human Predicament Karl E. Peters Our human predicament is threefold. We are facing Read More…
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Dancing in Church
Dancing in Church Why does a 73 year old man start dancing in the aisle of a New England Protestant church during Lent? By himself. Inviting others to join him. My reply is that I was “moved by the Spirit.” The way I understand what happened is in the light of my scientifically informed, religious Read More…
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The Rabbit in the Road
When I went to get the paper this morning at our rural mailbox, I saw a crow picking away at a dead animal in the road near our neighbor’s driveway. It looked like a cat, but when I walked over, it turned about to be a rabbit, a large rabbit. I felt sorry for the Read More…
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SOME WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT GOD
SOME WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT GOD Karl E. Peters Much discussion and debate has occurred about whether God is. I’ve always been more interested in what the word “God” might mean. Over the years I’ve developed a schema of ways to think about God. The following is that schema. The first item considers what some Read More…
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