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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 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