“The XFL is just what a patient in withdrawal needs to ease the transition.”

“We imagine Big Bang as though someone switched on a torch in the middle of a dark room; but of course, there is no flashlight, there is no room.”

“Once alive, always alive, but not always alive in time. Life, at least conscious life, is not time bound. You’re in for a penny, you’re in for a pound.”  

“The order that emerges among self-governing entities is the only 'real' order.”

“As far back as I can remember, I’ve known that ‘something’s wrong’. No matter 'whom' (sic) I’ve seemed to be, I have not been.”

“The Stations of the Cross are not just about Jesus’ final hours; they are about all the hours of all of our lives.”

“'Distributed intelligence' challenges our ideas of God and of Nature; but it may offer a pathway to a new and better theory of cosmogenesis.”

“Cosmic phenomena may best be understood by overlaying several incompatible but complementary models.”

“Sadly, the option of a ‘Constitutional Theocracy’ hasn’t made it into most 21st century civics textbooks.”

“If a UK political party were to adopt ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ as its manifesto, it would likely get no closer to the House of Commons than the Tower of London.”

“How are you at riddles? Let’s see!”

“What was lost on the battlefield was won back in the taverns, classrooms and monasteries of medieval England. The turning point: Geoffrey Chaucer…who says art can’t change the world?”

“Consciousness is an agent of identity, a consequence of identity, and an expression of identity…”

“But what if Jesus is not your cup of tea? There’s an old hymn that goes, ‘Jesus is just all right with me,’ but what if he’s not all right with you?”

“You want me to believe that your God is invisible, that he lives in an empty box…and you want me to worship that box?”

“For 70 years you’ve practiced the ways of others; you have been a loyal member of team Homo, but now it’s back to reality, to yourself alone.”

“World War I, Stalinism, Fascism, the Holocaust, World War II, Hiroshima, the Cold War, Vietnam, and now the new ‘30-Plus Years War’ in the Middle East… Rational Empiricism has compiled quite a resume!”

“You are not Joey...there are no magic kingdoms in your future. No, you are face-to-face with the darkest days of winter.”

“You’ve heard of Occam’s Razor… Occam gives disheveled, often bloated philosophy a good shave. But not good enough!”

“We would not expect to find every human being alive today sharing DNA inherited from one particular ancestral couple, and yet, they do!”

“The only way to conserve the past is to change it (and) the surest way to destroy the past is to preserve it.”

"Not all thoughts come while shaving..."

“In the technical jargon of academia, the mashed potatoes are lumpier than we would have expected.”

“You share 99.9% of my DNA! How scary is that?”

“Photons do what frazzled parents can’t; they can be in two places at once. Better yet, they can be in all places at once.”

“Shame comes in two flavors: episodic shame and existential shame. Episodic shame can be habit-forming; it can turn into existential shame.”

“The future is hurtling toward us at the speed of a runaway train…Now is the hour of our death…Memento Mori does not go nearly far enough. Try Vivo Mori instead.”

“…the city had 260,000 residential units, 80,000 shops, 13,000 looms, 5,000 mills, and 4,000 open air markets… the central library contained over 400,000 volumes (allegedly more than the library at Alexandria before the conflagration.)”

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“First, pay the cancellation fee and cash in your first-class ticket to Lhasa.”

“Madison Avenue knows us. It knows that our deepest longing is to be ourselves, to be what we are, to lose our absolute freedom in the security of an identity....'Never happening!”

“We’re not in Kansas (or even Kensington) anymore, are we?”

“Satisfaction…is potentially limitless.”

“Whatever we do, each of us is commenting on the current state-of-affairs, advocating for some future state-of-affairs, or rejecting the political process altogether.”

“To determine if a particular government is operating for the people, we need a checklist. What are the identifying marks of such a government?”

“After Lincoln, the legitimacy of government is an all or nothing proposition.”

“Al Gore claims the honor, but research shows that proof of concept testing began in 802 AD...”

I will write (my law) upon their hearts… At that time, there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in their own mind.

OMG, what have I done? I’ve just given you "The Ultimate Imperialists’ Cookbook!"

“Modern physics is right now living at least three lives and possibly a fourth.”

“So that’s it for me; I’m done. I’m too old for war now, period. Put me down on your list as…no longer compliant.”

We are Le Neant, nothing – and nothing could be better than that!

“Was it Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Wrench? Or…”

“There was more cultural overlap between the Confederate States and the United States in 1860 than there is today between red states and blue.”

“I had not known that God’s alleged demise had been elevated to the status of a fact.”

“A successful revolution is not something you cook up one summer evening over burgers and beer…”

“…You feel your body sliding between other bodies, not under them; you look up and OMG, it’s Morning in America, daylight after all.”

Give us your honest opinion, please.

Why can’t a monarch wear whatever shade of nail polish she wants?

“That’s why Tom Brady can’t retire!”

“My job is to experience, even enjoy, the prairie, not fix it…”

“We’ll ‘listen’ to a performance of Handel’s Messiah and then ‘fly’ to London to take a look at Henry Moore’s iconic sculpture, Nativity.

“Only six verses long, this Christology contains the elements of a complete Theology, and, beyond that, of a complete Cosmology.”

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Who’s the hero now, Julius Caesar…or you?

Piraha has no words for numerals (e.g., 1, 2, 3) or for colors (e.g., red, green, blue).

“It is often said that victors write history. That is even truer when the war is cultural rather than political.”

I before me except after T (Theos)

The relationship between Jesus and Mary is the relationship between God and the World, and the relationship between God and the World is the paradigm of all external relatedness.

Contemporary views of Time include such ideas as: ‘there is no such thing; it’s an illusion; it’s a giant block and every moment is a slice; time is just one more dimension in spacetime,' etc.

“He used to travel…to isolated barns for clandestine Masses…”

“There was more cultural overlap between the Confederate States and the United States in 1860 than there is today between Red States and Blue.”

"Imagine that the Borg Collective and Jean Luc Picard had a baby…"

Living in an orientable universe is no fun! Thank God we don’t live in such a universe!

This alternative turns a simple, two-stroke process of alienation into a four-stroke process of alignment. How so?

All of us at AT are super excited about what we’re building: a hyper-active community of folks dedicated to the convergence of science, philosophy, and theology in the 21st century.

“I wrote the answers to life’s riddles on the cuffs of your shirts, and I encouraged you to cheat. And still…”

God’s sovereignty is absolute; it is part of God’s essential nature and therefore cannot be subdivided, shared, or delegated…it can only be reflected.

Democracy, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Tyranny, even Anarchy, are means of government, not government itself.

“If time travel is perfected in my lifetime, I know exactly where…and when…I’ll visit first!”

“Courage is how 'who you are' overcomes 'what you are.'"

“We are co-responsible for the world. We are all always our siblings’ keepers!”

Childhood today could be and should be utopian, but it isn’t. Not even close! Why? How did we screw things up so massively?

“Do I really have to wait three months for more ATM?" No, you do not! We’ve decided to add a special issue (7/15) to our 2022 publication schedule. Here's what we have planned...

People who perpetrate mass shootings are searching for answers, for meaning in life…

We’ve constructed a super-elaborate cosmology to explain how ‘it is’ arose spontaneously from ‘it is not.’ (If that doesn’t make any sense to you, trust me, it doesn’t make sense to me either.) How did the universe come to be? It just did! How did the ratios of the masses of subatomic particles get so finely tuned? They just did!

But OT or NT, is the information fungible? Well, it may not get you a cool ride or an awesome crib, but it might just get you eternal life instead.

We were thrilled when the opportunity arose to add these additional articles to our first issue.

Your exclusive look at the all-new magazine for believers in science and God!

I love to say, “I know.” Be honest, so do you! We all love to say it – well, all of us except Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464), who preferred to say, “I don’t know.” But that’s another story for another day.

Do we live life or does life live us?

“…We just caught our first glimpse of the big black hole that lies, curled up like my favorite pussy cat, at the center of our galaxy.”

…We do not experience ‘objective time’, we only experience ‘subjective time’. In subjective time, a minute never ends but entire years go by in a flash.

But there are holes in this Swiss cheese. First, while it is true that ‘events’ constitute the universe, what we’re calling ‘events’ (above) are rarely primordial events.

There is nothing more self-satisfying or self-aggrandizing than ‘taking offense’.

That’s conventional wisdom…and in this rare case, conventional wisdom is not wrong…but neither is it perfectly right.

Suppose every day we could vote what weather we were to have tomorrow. What fighting there would be, what killing of one neighbor by another…most things that we vote for do not really matter, you are a little more or a little less uncomfortable as the government does one thing or another but the weather oh dear…that would be a disaster.”

Is it possible to write an autobiography of everyone, to somehow incorporate the wildly varying events of different people’s lives into a single story? Absurd, right? But not so fast!

A survey of Western traditions suggests that May Day might once have been the most important day of the year. That’s right, May Day! This day links pagan fertility rites, mythology, cosmology, Christian theology, and Marxist ideology. Quite a feat! Or is it?

This was perhaps the last time we could say, “God is in his heaven, and all is right with the world.”

You can’t resist the urge. You peek back at the front cover. Is this really a book about Eastern Europe c. 1000 A.D.?

We expect that death will seem closer each time we check, but surprisingly, that isn’t what we experience. It seems as though death were retreating from us. The closer we get, the further it recedes.

A famous paradox runs like this: “Is it good because it is God’s will, or is it God’s will because it is good?” In other words, is God subject to universal ethical standards or are those standards universal merely because God wills them?

What walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening? Of course, by now we all know the answer: human beings. Babies crawl (4), adults walk (2), seniors often need a cane (3). But there’s more to this riddle than meets the eye.

Time is the spotlight of being. For a short while, we are in the spot; then we aren’t. We are merely ‘shadows of our former selves’ (shades).

For the most part, modern English limits itself to a handful of cases, voices, moods, etc. That would not do for Gertrude Stein. She needed more!

We honor ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ as inalienable human rights, but not all of us can say with assurance that we are always on the side of ‘life’ and ‘liberty’. Sometimes we can’t even agree on what these words mean, and we certainly don’t agree on how these rights should be applied in specific situations. (For example, many of the men who wrote the Declaration themselves owned slaves. We don’t always see ourselves through the eyes of civilization or the lens of history.)

We imagine that our world is made up of ‘things’ (nouns), their accidental qualities (adjectives), and the relationships between them (verbs). We imagine this because just such a classification system is embedded in our native tongue: modern English, for example, or most any other contemporary Indo-European language.

Classification is a tool we use to organize our experiences into categories based on the intrinsic content of those experiences. Flying in planes may define a different category of experience from hiking in mountains. Of course, no two flights are ever the same, nor are any two hikes. Still, it is useful for some purposes (not all) to classify these experiences differently.

Is the spark of the Hasidim the same thing as Whitehead’s Primordial Nature of God?