preborn life

Which Would You Choose?

In conversing with pro-lifers, I notice a stubborn strain of gradualism in their thinking. Not gradualism with legislation, but with recognizing the equal dignity of all human beings. A hypothetical test-example: Two candidates are running for president, one promising to outlaw abortion only from five months post-conception to birth and the other promises to outlaw […]... Read More

The Senses, Heart, and Mind

The senses perceive what is temporal and transient. The heart is unsatisfied with this because it’s oriented to the eternal and unchanging. The mind can follow logical principles from the physical to the metaphysical, knowing all things temporary and transient are grounded in the eternal and unchanging. Faith bridges the divine and human, enabling the […]... Read More
Plato and Aristotle

3 Simple Signs of the Human Soul

Archeologists agree that 3 basic signs of being human are abstract thought (including creative imagination), symbolic language, and religion – each distinguishing us from the other animals. What do these have in common? The ability to rise above the spatial-temporal realm of the physical senses to tap into a transcendent reality. Pre-Christian pagan philosophers could […]... Read More
Open-closed mind 2

Analogies and the Narrowing of the Mind

Studies show students can’t grasp analogies anymore. Analogies enable us to see the interrelations of things and expand our minds to more than just discerning what the senses detect. The narrowing of the mind to just univocal thinking is the result of decades of philosophical materialism and scientific positivism preached through the messages of the […]... Read More

Tragic Rejection of the Intuitive Intellect

The intuitive intellect, common to all people from the age of reason, is the true canvas on which the details of reality can be analyzed. Aquinas called the blueprint of reality that the intuitive intellect grasps the natural law, C.S. Lewis called it the Tao. All people have access to it from the age of […]... Read More