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Red Letter Philosophy

Oct 31, 2019

What is it about Halloween?  Is it the candy and dressing up?  Is it trick or treating in a decorated neighborhood?  Is it parties? What is it about the dark imagery, the witches, the vampires, and of course, the ghosts that make Halloween alluring?  Is there anything of substance behind this attraction to...


Oct 25, 2019

If morality cannot be reduced to culture or emotion, then what is it?  Perhaps it is simply a subjective thing.  But there’s a problem with this.  In the words of Jordan Peterson, “we cannot invent our values, because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls.”   Perhaps what makes us uncomfortable is...


Oct 11, 2019

This week we confront a reality - a law, to use Lewis' language - that is unavoidable, yet can be disobeyed.  We contemplate a reality that presses upon you as much as gravity, but cannot be measured and weighed by any instrument of science; a reality that gives life to our culture and our families, but is not reducible...