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The articles in this section represent work I have done over the past decade. The best of them will gradually be edited and posted in future issues of AT Magazine. In the meantime, feel free to take a look at any that interest you. At the end of each article, there is a comments section. Please use this space to offer suggestions and/or criticisms. Help me get these articles ready for publication.
Thanks,
David Cowles
Editor-in- Chief, AT Magazine
David Cowles
- Feb 16, 2017
- 8 min
MYTHOLOGY TODAY
According to a popular conception of intellectual history, mythology is characteristic of human pre-history. In this view, mythology was...
David Cowles
- Jan 11, 2017
- 9 min
MORALS OR VALUES
For most of us, our first encounter with “morality” comes through our parents (or parent figures). As we graduate from babyhood to...
David Cowles
- Oct 17, 2016
- 4 min
DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah, the 5th book of the Bible, consists of 34 Chapters containing on average about 35 verses each....
David Cowles
- Oct 2, 2016
- 5 min
THEOLOGY OF ENTANGLEMENT
What is the relationship between God and the world, between the Kingdom of Heaven and the material universe? Ultimately, this one...
David Cowles
- Aug 25, 2016
- 10 min
THE MEANING OF LIFE
(Toward the end of his life, A. J. Ayer, British philosopher and the father of Logical Positivism, gave a lecture on the Meaning of Life....
David Cowles
- Jun 9, 2016
- 9 min
KUNDALINI
Relax. This isn’t an article about the practice of Kundalini Yoga. (Even I know my limits.) In 1932 Carl Gustav Jung delivered a series...
David Cowles
- May 20, 2016
- 8 min
HOW THE WORLD WORKS
The world consists entirely of events. Events have elements but not parts: they are indivisible because they are self-reflective and...
David Cowles
- May 4, 2016
- 9 min
THE PROBLEM OF GOOD II
An earlier essay in this collection, The Problem of Good, showed that the famous “Problem of Evil” is really just a special case...
David Cowles
- Mar 18, 2016
- 5 min
PSALM 126
“Those who go forth weeping, carrying sacks of seed, Will return with cries of joy, carrying their bundled sheaves.” According to the...
David Cowles
- Jan 17, 2016
- 6 min
FRACTAL
Have you ever been in a fun house? If so, you probably visited the Hall of Mirrors. You enter and all around you are mirrors. You look...
David Cowles
- Dec 5, 2015
- 11 min
TIME OVERTHROWN
One morning, I was standing on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, looking across to Philadelphia. As I was accompanied by several...
David Cowles
- Nov 10, 2015
- 20 min
THEOLOGY 101
Theology 101 is comprehensive…but not complete. Questions remain to be answered, themes need to be further developed. Think of this as an...
David Cowles
- Oct 1, 2015
- 9 min
HOLOGRAM
Although the story is told twice, once in Matthew and once in Luke, both versions amount to a single account of Jesus teaching his...
David Cowles
- Aug 4, 2015
- 14 min
PSALMS
The Book of Psalms consists of 150 songs praising and exhorting God. While Psalms of praise and Psalms of exhortation arise out ot very...
David Cowles
- Jul 6, 2015
- 11 min
MAY DAY
A very, very long time ago, when I was young, our favorite days of the year were Christmas and Halloween, not necessarily in that order....
David Cowles
- Jun 4, 2015
- 6 min
TRINITY
According to the website, Catholic Culture, the Blessed Trinity is “the fundamental dogma on which everything in Christianity is based.”...
David Cowles
- May 27, 2015
- 13 min
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
Lewis Carroll’s second novel about his young heroine, Alice (you know Alice…of Wonderland fame), is titled Through the Looking-Glass and...
David Cowles
- Apr 20, 2015
- 8 min
I AM
The Judeo-Christian tradition includes upwards of 80 books of scripture (depending on whose cannon you’re following), but I think a...
David Cowles
- Apr 7, 2015
- 8 min
CREATIONISM
Creationism is the belief that the cosmos, the earth, living organisms, and/or human beings came to be instantaneously in something very...
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