The Power of Presence

 

In March, I visited Gbadolite and six of the seven regions of the Wasolo Pool.  I went to listen – to be present to those far from the center of the CEUM.  I knew the division within the CEUM …

Toward Heuristic Conversation

 

Heuristic power is the capacity of a person or an idea or a text or an object to point us to possibilities and inspire us to discovery and conversation and relationship.

Four Articles

Recently a friend posted links to …

Facts and the Heuristic Promise of Clues

 

“COVID-19: The importance of science in an era of distrust and disinformation” read the headline of a press release by the American Medical Association.  “In a virtual address hosted by the National Press Club on April 7, 2020, AMA …

Contemplation

 

In a March 2020 First Things article, Michael Hanby writes that “Modernity is the radical and wholesale transformation of the world’s relation to the divine.”  With God reduced from “first principle” to “a hypothesis,” the door was open for …