What all of this suggests is that we need a more complex understanding of identities. If we identify on the basis of race, class, sexuality, or gender alone we cannot make sense of the ways these identifications combine and change over time. The used...
It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theo...
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from preten...
When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extremely rewarding to your ego. At those times you may be acting more out of the desire to get that love and satisfaction yourself, ra...
In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel ...
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we...
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being c...
Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.
