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Masthead Masthead David Cowles Editor-in-Chief Read More E. C. Argus Contributor Read More Grace Krzenski Young Writer Winner, Winter 2023 Read More Deidre Braley Contributor Read More Elizabeth Bradfield Contributor Read More Fr. Timothy Joyce, OSB, STL Contributor Read More Deborah Rutherford Contributor Read More Ayala Emmett Contributor Read More Vittorio Bufacchi Contributing Writer Read More Erin Gruodis-Gimbel Contributor Read More Ian Paul Contributor Read More Jan Heckler Contributor Read More Annie D. Stutley Contributor, Editorial Board Read More Magesh Contributor Read More Meggie Gates Contributor Read More Dr. Stephen Stern Contributor Read More Jay Terrell Contributor Read More Rabbi Dr. Jon Kelsen Contributor Read More Gurnmoor Contributor Read More B.J. Yudelson Contributor Read More Laura Cabrera Contributor Read More Olwen Wymark Contributor Read More Dr. Stuti Pardhe Contributor Read More Fernanda Nascimento Contributor Read More Dr. Regis Martin Contributor Read More Amy Toman Contributor Read More Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson Contributor Read More Mark A. Villano Contributor Read More Nicholas Senz Contributor Read More Rev. Dr. Anne-Louise Critchlow Contributor Read More Hadassah Treu Contributor Read More James Bratt Contributor Read More Steve Gimbel Contributor Read More Naomi S. Baron Contributor Read More Bryon David Contributor Read More

Haiku Corner Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry, usually consisting of 17 syllables, arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. Does this formal rigor seem like it would be inhibiting? The reverse is true. It’s liberating! Learn about Haiku? Read some Haiku? (See below.) Write and submit a Haiku? (We may publish it in a later issue.) Join (or start) a Renga Cycle (our “Japanese Poetry Slam”). ​ Haiku Read More Renga Cycle 1 Read More Return to Table of Contents, Beach Issue

Challenges Are you clever? Good at riddles, a poet, a writer, a math whiz, or just a sharp critical thinker? Take one of our AT Challenges and you may win prizes or see your work published in a future issue. The Sultan and the Sea Challenge First, read The Sultan and the Sea in this issue of Aletheia Today magazine. Next, take the Sultan and the Sea challenge. Read More Winner of the Haiku Challenge Find out who is our first ATM Haiku Challenge Winner! Read More The Haiku Challenge Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry usually consisting of 17 syllables, arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. Take the Haiku Challenge today! Read More The Faith Chaplain Challenge Inspired by this issue's Being Faith Chaplain in a Secular World, tell us how you navigate not just your faith in the workplace, but also how you share your faith with others in places where your personal beliefs aren't always popular or even welcomed. Read More

Aletheia Journal 03/18/2022 And then? What comes next? After 50 years of doing everything for everybody, you can do things for yourself…to the extent that you’re able–to the extent you’re not able. You must now learn to let other people do things for you. More later… -David Read More 03/17/2022 What does a person do who is no longer learning to live, no longer learning to be ‘people’, no longer living other people’s lives? Such a person ‘reflects’…she reflects on what she’s learned, on how she’s lived, and on who she’s been. Does she have something to say that hasn’t already been said by countless others? Does she have something to do that hasn’t already been done? After 75 years, you’ve earned the right to make your own unique contribution to civilization. Now if I could just figure out what that unique contribution might be… More later… -David Read More 03/16/2022 So for 25 years you do nothing to anyone or for anyone; everyone does everything to you and for you. Other people feed you, clothe you, shelter you, teach you, play with you, hurt you, etc. Then, for the next 50 years, you do everything to and for others: you feed them, clothe them, shelter them, teach them, play with them, yes, hurt them. More later… -David Read More 03/15/2022 For 25 years, give or take, you learn to live. My mother called it ‘learning to be people’. “David,” she would say, “You’re just not people!” And she was right; I wasn’t. Then, after 25 years of learning to live, of learning to be ‘people’, you finally are ‘people’. Now at last, you can begin to live…other people’s lives. You’ve learned to be ‘people’, but the people you have learned to be are ‘other people’. So congratulations, you just spent 25 years of your life learning how to be someone you’re not…and be really good at it! That’s what we call ‘culture’: learning to be ‘people’, other people, and learning to live other people’s lives. If the purpose of acculturation is to limit behavioral variety across a species, I’d say ours is working very nicely, thank you. More later… -David Read More The following is a collection of entries marking time and the curiosities of David Cowles, philosopher, lover of language, science seeker, and admirer of the divine plan.

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 Works in Progress Anaximander Being Best of the Best Genesis For Kids Eschatology Existentialism Christ Culture John & Paul Parmenides Heraclitus Politics Job Pound & Joyce Prophet Time Thoughts While Shaving Prayer Trinity Science Yellow Submarine Whitehead Log in / Sign up David Cowles Apr 14, 2020 4 min Culture BLACK DEATH As I write this, the world is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Life has been deeply altered and one wonders if things will ever... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jan 17, 2020 8 min Culture TOWER OF BABEL Most of us are familiar with the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9). Superficially, its meaning seems obvious. A... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Oct 28, 2019 20 min Anaximander WHAT’S WHAT World What do we mean when we talk about ‘the world’? We don’t just mean the universe, the cosmos or the planet Earth. We mean the world... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Aug 13, 2019 11 min Whitehead GOD’S WILL Following any catastrophe – a tsunami in the Pacific, a mass shooting at a shopping mall…or the death of a young child – you’re certain... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jul 23, 2019 12 min Eschatology LORD’S PRAYER II “So, three things remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor. 13:13) ———- “Our Father who art in heaven,... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Apr 30, 2019 5 min Culture WHERE THE TIME GOES Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Written by English folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny, this late ‘60s anthem was popularized by... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Apr 5, 2019 4 min Culture COMMUNISM OR SOCIALISM? The terms, ‘communism’ and ‘socialism’ are often used interchangeably. Yet in some respects, they are more like antonyms than synonyms. ... 1 comment 1 David Cowles Jan 20, 2019 4 min Being EVERYTHING EXISTS In a debate with his elder siblings about the existence of Santa Claus, my grandson, then 5 years old, triumphantly ended the argument... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jan 7, 2019 10 min Being HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS When you think of cosmos, do you think of it as something singular or something plural? Is it ‘one’ or ‘many’? Is it an ‘organism’ with... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Nov 3, 2018 7 min Being THE ELEATICS Around 535 BC, a group of Greek settlers founded a colony on the west coast of Italy, just south of the modern city of Napoli (Naples).... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Sep 21, 2018 9 min Being BEING Either a ‘thing’ (res), an ‘actual entity’ (per Whitehead), is – or it is not. Take ‘A’, for example. ‘A’ is a thing (or event). It... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jul 4, 2018 11 min Being WHY IS THERE SOMETHING… In 2012, renowned physicist and cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss, published A Universe from Nothing. The purpose of the book was to debunk... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jun 16, 2018 3 min Culture AMERICAN HISTORY REDUX (Note to high school and college students: If you are surfing the web, looking for an essay to plagiarize, I don’t recommend this one…at... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Mar 26, 2018 11 min Trinity CHRISTIANITY From the very beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, powerful forces were arrayed against him and his mission (Luke 4: 14 – 30): “He came... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jan 19, 2018 3 min Time ETERNITY “If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Oct 15, 2017 14 min Anaximander SEVEN WORDS Being Good Beauty Truth Justice Love Presence Every important branch of philosophy focuses on one or more of these... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Sep 9, 2017 11 min Time THE OTHER BIBLE It’s been called, “the greatest story ever told”, The Bible. But what is that story? “The earth was without form or shape, with darkness... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Jun 13, 2017 5 min Eschatology PSALM 22 There are 64 books in the New American edition of the Holy Bible. One of these books is Psalms. The Book of Psalms consists of 150 psalms... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Apr 18, 2017 7 min Being ANAMNESIS “Anamnesis”; it’s a mouthful…but a very important mouthful. It refers to the idea that some (or all) memories are not just passive... 0 comments 0 David Cowles Mar 28, 2017 12 min Being THE ONE AND THE MANY (This essay is dedicated to Ralph Pred, mentor and friend, who taught me almost everything I know and who would probably disagree with... 0 comments 0