Category Archives: Course Work

Papers written for Courses in my Program

Worldview is back

A version of this paper was presented at the 2008 South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society Society conference on Oct 10, 2008. You may not have noticed, but Worldview is back.  The concept, which is a little more that two hundred years old, was heavily … Read More

Love, but Not the Love of God

Michael Lerner’s book, The Left Hand of God, has a great deal to say about worldviews. And his assessment of Modernism has much in common with my own. Lerner attributes Scientism as the root of our social ills.(130) Scientism, is granting naturalistic facts of “might … Read More

Globalization and Identity Sacrifice

How are we to assuage those who react violently to the perception that the core of their identity is at risk?

What is Your Normality?

In which the journalist challenges us to see

Good Lovers

The Transformative Effect of the Impossible

Dimensions of Poverty

Understanding Invisibility, Unwantedness, and Dependence

Seeing the Poor

In which journalist asks "Whose fault is it that you are Poor?"

Why Be Religious?

In which the philosopher John Caputo attempts to elucidate its value