Thanks for putting this out there again for us to find — and to then discover the whole series! Once again my reading list has happily been expanded.

I’m always grateful to find a voice that supports potential, uncertainty, or the willingness to see more than we started out with. I appreciate the candor with which you illustrate the human experience. We don’t know everything, though we wish we did. We find changing our minds difficult, but we admit it is essential for growth. If we are lucky, we’ll be exposed to wonders and horrors in our lives, and we will want to make sense of them. You are gifted at expressing these nearly universal human characteristics.

Fortunately, we humans have a variety of mind-tools to use: scientific method, experiential learning, philosophical abstraction, acceptance of established wisdom, or rejecting and rebuilding that wisdom.

For me, the best tool we have is love: love of humanity; love of life and the infinite cosmos; love of god, if you will. That’s what allows us to integrate pragmatism with idealism, in my view. Love compels us to nurture children and desire to live in peace. Religion can illuminate that love, and science can make it possible to actually put it into practice.

So…thanks again for framing the questions so well.

Keep the faith.