God espouses the highest ideals to which we can aspire. The gospels teach peace, love, and understanding. Yet, differences in how a spiritual being who embodies these divine qualities is worshiped are regularly used as excuses for war, hatred, and prejudice. Governments promise us peace and prosperity, yet send us off to die in foreign [...]

Still awake – thinking about shutting down is about as close as I will get to sleep for another twenty hours. About two hundred and fifty pages left to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – an excellent book, though I wonder whether it will ever reveal the world beyond its solipsist well’s subterranean darkness and ephemeral [...]