Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sermons

  • The Custody of the Heart

    If you practice the custody of the heart, it may save you from unnecessary folly — as delightful as romantic follies can be.  Do you feel yourself falling in love with your neighbor's wife?  Don't tell yourself you can't help it. Don't hijack Pascal's "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."  Get…

  • Sunday Morning Sermon: Life Well Lived

    To make good use of your time in this world, think of your life above all as a quest, a seeking, a searching, a striving.  For what?  For the ultimate in reality, truth, value, and for their existential appropriation.   One appropriates reality by being authentic, truth by being truthful, values and norms by living…