Last week a man was killed in a car crash in Uganda. He was a pastor. He was also one of the most mean-spirited and vicious people I have ever encountered in my life. He made me question what Evil was. His death has prompted an outpouring of sorrow from people touched by his ministry and […]
A photograph can make something mundane appear unique and distinctive. The rendered image metastasizes into something altogether different. One of my favorite examples is street photography. A talented photographer can take a candid photo of two women at a street corner, staring jauntily at the camera. If we encountered these women in everyday life we […]
Recently, I was talking with a mathematician. He was animated as he talked about the beauty of math, the thrill of taking an axiomatic system and using its principles to build a bridge to a solution for what appears to be a wholly unrelated problem. The excitement in his manner was infectious and deep. He […]