Modernity: A Rebellion Against God

By |2023-07-31T19:51:59-05:00July 31st, 2023|Categories: Christianity, Existence of God, Francis Bacon, George Stanciu, Modernity, Science|

Francis Bacon imagined a glorious future for us once our ancestors made themselves the masters and possessors of Nature; however, the ever-ascending arc of science and technology turned out to be not under human control. Physicists, neuroscientists, and computer and genetic engineers are the new sorcerer’s apprentices, having summoned great forces they can now not [...]

Materialism: The False God of Modern Science

By |2023-03-01T13:50:50-06:00March 1st, 2023|Categories: Existence of God, George Stanciu, Philosophy, Reason, Science, St. John's College, Timeless Essays|

Trained to believe that every object as well as every act in the universe is matter, an aspect of matter, or produced by matter—that is, schooled to be a materialist—I scoffed at the two fellow students of mine in graduate school who regularly attended church. For me, at that time, the brain was the mind [...]

The God in the Cave

By |2023-12-24T08:26:36-06:00December 24th, 2022|Categories: Christendom, Christianity, Christmas, Existence of God, G.K. Chesterton, Myth, Philosophy, Religion, Timeless Essays, Truth|

Christ was not only born on the level of the world, but even lower than the world. The first act of the divine drama was enacted, not only on no stage set up above the sightseer, but on a dark and curtained stage sunken out of sight. This sketch of the human story began in [...]

Being Alive to Reality

By |2022-05-03T16:50:45-05:00May 3rd, 2022|Categories: Existence of God, Joseph Pearce, Science, Senior Contributors|

Perceiving metaphysical reality requires being spiritually alive to its presence. It is the virtue of humility which opens the heart in gratitude and the eyes in wonder. A very thoughtful and thought-provoking comment on my recent essay “Tolkien on Reality” merits a response. Here’s the comment in question: The conflation of “real” and “alive” isn’t [...]

Confronting the Powers of Darkness With the Faith of Naomi Wolf

By |2022-02-22T15:27:49-06:00February 23rd, 2022|Categories: Christianity, Evil, Existence of God, John Horvat|

The case of Naomi Wolf is a sign of our sinister times. We do not know whether she will develop her faith and embrace Church teachings. Such conversions are best left in the hands of God, Whose ways are mysterious and inscrutable. However, her desperate plea for help against the principalities and powers of darkness [...]

Unidentified: UFOs, Aliens, and Us

By |2021-06-29T23:42:10-05:00June 29th, 2021|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Existence of God, Intelligence, Senior Contributors|

What is happening right now in regard to the UFO activity recently acknowledged by the U.S. government is fascinating. The questions raised by the possibilities take us back to first principles, causing us to ask: What is man? Who is God? And what is man’s relationship to his fellow man and to God? More than [...]

On Gardens, Institutions, and the Universe

By |2020-09-05T15:47:12-05:00September 5th, 2020|Categories: Christianity, Existence of God, Nature, Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas|

The most effective way to show that God exists is to expose our false deep-seated illusion that the world around us, our networks, are all there is and ever was, in the eternity of the world. It is our prejudices, our pride, our fear that keep us from seeing that the Prime Mover is not [...]

“The Language of God”: The Man Who Saw God Through a Microscope

By |2020-07-07T10:41:40-05:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Books, Christianity, Darwin, Existence of God, Faith, Nature, Reason, Science, St. Augustine|

In “The Language of God,” Francis Collins breaks into the debate between faith and reason with intelligible writing and with the strength of his experience as a scientist and the nine-years director of the Human Genome Project. He is a man who found God while deciphering the hidden codes of life. The Language of God: [...]

O Sting, Where Is Thy Death?

By |2018-08-28T13:13:52-05:00August 28th, 2018|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Death, Existence of God, Joseph Pearce, Music|

In a somewhat bizarre recent interview with the National Catholic Register, the aging rock star, Sting, who eons ago had been lead singer of the rock band The Police, waxed in a bemused and confused way about his relationship with the Catholic faith, in which he was raised but which he has abandoned. He gave [...]

In the Beginning Was the… Music?

By |2021-01-20T12:33:22-06:00July 21st, 2018|Categories: Audio/Video, Existence of God, Mathematics, Nature, Science|

Michio Kaku has made a name for himself as a world-leading theoretical physicist unafraid to speak his mind. Dr. Kaku, the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York, has published more than 70 articles in physics journals on topics such as supersymmetry, superstring theory, supergravity, and hadronic [...]

The Death of God and the New Stories

By |2021-04-24T19:18:53-05:00May 20th, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Death, Existence of God, George Stanciu, Great Books, Religion, Science, St. John's College|

The narratives of science and Christianity are obviously not novels, nor works of fiction, for both claim to tell the true story of humankind—where we came from, what we are, and where we are going. To determine if either of these narratives is true, we must assess the plot… In 1882, Nietzsche’s madman ran to [...]

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