Atheism and the Crisis of the Spirit

  It seems  odd that in a society in which secular attitudes are everywhere  on the increase, there is an apparently unending  spate of words written or spoken about religion,  or about  God whose existence is either    denied or called in question. Joe FitzPatrick (O.H.240) calls attention to a spiritual void  that has developed in …

CAN A HUMANIST BE A CHRISTIAN?

BBC Radio 4 Sunday program on 07/12/14, the Second Sunday of Advent, contained an interesting discussion on the question of Humanism.The question at issue seemed to be whether a Humanist can be a Christian, or, conversely, whether a Christian can be a Humanist. In our modern secular culture Humanism seems to have become anti-religious and associated with …

CULTURE AND THE DEATH OF GOD

Culture and the Death of God It seems to me to be odd, and a fact worth noting, that in these days when secular attitudes are everywhere prevalent, the spate of words written or spoken about religion o about a God whose existence is called in question or denied or a god who perhaps fills …

RE-READING INSPIRING TEXTS

Do the ideas of Aldous Huxley, as expressed in his 1945 book ‘The Perennial Philosophy’ have anything to offer the contemporary reader? Do they shed any light on helping us to understand the relationship between ‘religion’ and ‘science’ (if this is, indeed, a helpful or even meaningful, contrast to make)? Huxley defines this ‘perennial philosophy’ …