If you’ve read any books comparing the views of philosophers or theologians, what often stands out are their vehement disagreements on how to describe nuances of reality.  Karen Armstrong’s great chronicle, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1993), assures us that who God is, how God is to […]

  “I go willingly into the sound of the crickets.” –Pat Donegan, on her deathbed       I hadn’t planned to write on Pat, but then, who really plans on death—even when they see it coming?  She died on the evening of January 25th in her hometown of Chicago after a difficult illness.  Interestingly […]