Read on about how the myth of the hero's journey demonizes the existential heroism of renouncing a domesticated life for a dehumanizing...

Here's an article about excessive Democratic civility, the slowing of social progress, the harsh reality of politics, and how to explai...

Read on about the double  irony of Jesus's relationship to the Roman Empire, and the irrelevance of the Church’s theological elaboratio...

Here's an article about the clash between the model of adventure and the Pareto principle, and how the myth of the hero's journey i...

My eighth paperback and eBook anthology, Questing for Epiphanies in a Haunted House,  is out on Amazon. Collecting around 600 pages from my...

Read on about the clash between our animal bodies and our higher calling, and how we can escape personal hypocrisy only to be mocked by our...

Read on about how the shocking misnomer of scientific “laws of nature” leads us to underestimate the strangeness of our ability to improve ...

Here's an article about Southern racism, religious fundamentalism, the backlash against modernity, and how the Trump cult embodies the ...

Read on about the Syntheistic movement to start an atheistic religion in the West, and whether we should revere or resent nature in co-crea...

Read on about precolonial African tribalism, the luxury of grand unifying myths in temperate climates, and how the geological environment c...