Yuletide, Christmas, Hanukkah, Oshogatsu - a world of names for a time of year about something. A time to reflect on our heritage, our faith, our future and our very existence. A time to recognise our roots. With this in mind I have collected together a series of tools for those of us inclined to non-theistic beliefs. Perhaps in reflecting on ...

The sacred is being invented again... And this time it is Stuart A. Kauffman's article "Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred", in Edge web magazine Read it here.  Kauffman, as many prominent scientists and thinkers do lately, voices a need to respond to what seems to be the latest ...

I describe myself to myself and myself to others as an open and free mind, and quite often when asked to explain this narrative I say that I am a great believer.   It is kind of circular I know; yet to really define what is an open and free mind I must refer to this most primal of human motivations, namely belief. To be a ...