‘Charlie Hebdo’ Redux: Islam and Free Speech
Are there ‘natural’ limits to freedom? This essay argues that the dignity on which freedom is based must be recognized as underpinning not only traditional but also secular conceptions of freedom.
Are there ‘natural’ limits to freedom? This essay argues that the dignity on which freedom is based must be recognized as underpinning not only traditional but also secular conceptions of freedom.
Faith is the root that dreams to know The rose concealed in winter’s snow, The dawn in twilight’s fading glow, The stillness in the river’s flow. Beauty ‘above’ it sees ‘below’, Radiance only the Heart can show. Part of a series of poems on the theological virtues,...
Even though we don’t at once see it, There’s dust floating in the air, somewhere. We know, when it gathers on ledges Or makes an appearance, it is there. Isn’t that somewhat like God, I ask, Invisibly present in our lives? Yet skeptics and atheists demur, Denying...