OPENING WORDS “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! Great God! I’d rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this […]

We human beings are flawed. Imperfect. Theologians, struggling to explain how a perfect God could create an imperfect creature ‘in his own image,’ came up with the interesting idea of ‘original sin.’ Adam, they said, was disobedient. God put him in paradise–a perfect world, where he could, according to the theologians, live forever; as long […]

I am not a big baseball fan. The word fan is the short of the word fanatic. A fan is a patron, a partisan, an aficionado. “A person markedor motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.” Churchill said: “A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” […]