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A completely uninteresting, sophomoric post anyone could write (or am I a Nebraska football fan?)2 comments

Harold Knight wrote 5 days ago: What does this have to do with religion? My cats are useless. Being useless is not, in itself, bad. … more →

Tags: autobiography, Bipolar Disorder, brain, Cats, College Teaching, epilepsy, hypergraphia, Nebraska Football, neurologist

My conundrum, paradox, inconsistency of hate

Harold Knight wrote 6 days ago: Adam Smith Abounds When I play the piano or organ, I have the guarantee that I will not have a seizu … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Astrophysics, epilepsy, Neurology, spirituality, writing, Religion

Metanarrative; métarécit: big fish stories

Harold Knight wrote 1 week ago: Sicilian Mariners Twentieth-century philosophers (especially those who think about thinking and writ … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, hypergraphia, Neurology, spirituality, autobiography, death, Gay, lyotard

Thanksgiving: gratitude, grief or grace?4 comments

Harold Knight wrote 1 week ago:      One way to read contemporary philosophy of religion and philosophical       theology is to view … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, epilepsy, Neurology, brain, autobiography, health-care reform, writing

Notes of Thanksgiving (by Darren Jacobs)

Darren wrote 1 week ago: The news broke the same day a very famous actor in financial straits (Dire straits… Mr. Knopfler wou … more →

Tags: Beauty, Cancer, Christianity, elena desserich, Faith, Finding God, Glenwood Inklings, Heaven, Nature

Science v. Religion v. Reality v. the Beautiful Shore

Harold Knight wrote 1 week ago:         quantum? There’s nothing unusual here. Except, perhaps, and only perhaps, my perception. … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, Astrophysics, epilepsy, neurologist, autobiography, clutter, Obsession, Gay

Divine Providence, Power Politics, or a Seizure?

Harold Knight wrote 2 weeks ago: A student, with all of the hubris a Freshman can muster, assaulted me with Thomas Jefferson’s words, … more →

Tags: autobiography, Bipolar Disorder, blue boy, Declaration of Independence, epilepsy, gainsborough, hypergraphia, Jimmy López, Mental Health

THE KERNEL OF RELIGION FROM WILLIAM JAMES TO NEUROTHEOLOGY

brendannewlon wrote 2 weeks ago: THE KERNEL OF RELIGION FROM WILLIAM JAMES TO NEUROTHEOLOGY By Brendan Newlon *** Abstract. William J … more →

Tags: Papers in Religious Studies, Brendan Newlon, religious studies, rgst, kernel of religion, neurotheology, Neuropsychology, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, William James

10 Ways Daily Bible Reading Will Enhance Corporate Worship1 comment

Doug wrote 2 weeks ago: ` 1. When a scripture is read you will already have some idea of the context of the passage and be a … more →

Tags: Baptist, Bible, Bible Teachers, Christianity, church, Doug Eaton, Gospel, Local Church, Pastor

a better place to play

fetters89 wrote 1 month ago: To Balmoral Avenue, to Oasis circa 1996, and to this baller November weather we’ve been having … more →

Tags: Edgewater, Chicago, autumn, balmoral avenue, Oasis

Blanche Thebom, Mahler, My Overwrought Brain, Eddy, and God2 comments

Harold Knight wrote 1 month ago: (Note: this isn’t feverish or—for the uninitiated—bizarre enough to record the “heightened religious … more →

Tags: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, fluorescent lights, hypergraphia, epilepsy, Neurology, brain, Merrill Moses

A thank you to my atheist friends: One reason why I'm a believer19 comments

adamf wrote 1 month ago: I have given a lot of thought as to why I believe in more than just this life, or why I believe in s … more →

Tags: Emotion, Family, Mormonism, Religion, Science, John Bowlby, Atheism, atheists, big bang

Tentative Top 10 (..in no particular order)2 comments

runwaystotheroad wrote 1 month ago: It’s been weeks since I have been to a show, and another two weeks before I go see another (Mo … more →

Tags: Hero, jenny lewis

What's in a Name? (by Karen Osborne)1 comment

Darren wrote 1 month ago: Karen Osborne   “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will n … more →

Tags: Apologetics, Christianity, church, confessions, Evangelism, Faith, Finding God, Glenwood Inklings, God

Mr. Jacob's Opus / An Ode to My Wife (by Darren Jacobs)

Darren wrote 1 month ago: I write this listening to Brandi Carlile capture the air around her (the white flag is in her lyrics … more →

Tags: Apologetics, Beauty, Cancer, Christianity, church, confessions, Doubt, Faith, Finding God

around half the adult population of Britain have had or have from time to time, religious experiences or awareness

soulangler wrote 1 month ago: …around half the adult population of Britain have had or have from time to time, religious exp … more →

Tags: sensus divinitatis

My safety and happiness and eternal enjoyment of God’s immutable love seemed as durable and unchangeable as God Himself

soulangler wrote 1 month ago: I cannot find language to express how certain this appeared…My safety and happiness and eternal enjo … more →

I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God as Mediator between God and man, and His wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension

soulangler wrote 1 month ago: Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired … more →

Tags: Christ, Christ as Priest, Jonathan Edwards

And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts, a sense sublime

soulangler wrote 1 month ago: And I have felt  A presence that disturbs me with the joy  Of elevated thoughts, a sense sublime   O … more →

Tags: sensus divinitatis


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