Until We Meet Again: My Tribute to Dave Reeve
Until We Meet Again: My Tribute to Dave ReeveOn Monday morning, June 8, upon asking one of the money counters, Glenn, I learned that my friend and fellow Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner, David Ch…
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The Philosophy and Theology Behind Stranger Things
Originally published in Crisis Magazine on January 15, 2025.The Netflix series, "Stranger Things," gives us a layered account of evil that resists reducing all harm to a single explanatory framework. …
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Faith, Friendship and the Search for Truth: A Catholic–Muslim Exchange
PrefaceAs a Catholic philosopher and theologian, I have long believed that sincere interreligious dialogue is one of the essential tasks of our time. In a world marked by division, caricature, and ide…
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Wolfgang Smith’s Legacy: A Metaphysician for Our Times
Originally published in Catholic Insight on July 19, 2025.On July 19, 2024, the world lost Wolfgang Smith, one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly important thinkers of our time. A rare polyma…
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Wolfgang Smith’s Legacy
Originally published in Crisis Magazine on July 18, 2025 Smith observed that while the sciences' blind adherence to a flat material reality permits a certain utility, it does not account for the multi…
A Reflection on Mario Augusto Bunge’s Life and Work
Originally published at Catholic Insight on March 20, 2020. On February 24, at 100 years of age, physicist and philosopher Mario Augusto Bunge passed onto the next life. Bunge completed a PhD in phys…
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The Light of the Incarnation in a Dark World
Originally published at Catholic Insight on December 24, 2019. As Christmas approaches and this decade ends, it would be worth our while to consider the current situation we find the world in. The ex…
GOD, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND EVOLUTION: A LECTURE ON THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2019Time: 03:30 PM Consciousness is the most fundamental thing we know, even more so than the external world since we require it to perceive or think about anything. Withou…
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Warranted Skepticism? Putting the Center for Inquiry’s Rationale to the Test
Originally published in the American Journal of Biblical Theology, Volume 16 (36), September 6, 2015 This article was most recently published in The Journal of Biblical Theology 3:3 (July-August 2020…
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Unrelenting Nemesis: Wolfgang Smith and His Trenchant Critique of Teilhard’s “Scientific Theology”
Originally published in Science et Esprit 67:1 (2015): 107-120. [pdf id=15820]…