Philosophy & Ethics
From time immemorial, we’ve sought answers in the stars. A scientist may call it a ball of gas, to a medieval saint it’s a celestial body in the heavens, but to many children like Charlie Brown of the comic strip Peanuts, they’re a mystery to be grasped.
Literature & Poetry
I want to work back to that intuition I had of the infinity of the self— that this world is bursting at its seams and margins with the divine. Is coming home to oneself like turning from ashes and ashes to dust in corners?
Philosophy & Ethics
A look at different philosophical interpretations of quantum physics. This is the seventh post in the series.
Ninth Heaven is a literary and arts journal dedicated to fostering cultural flourishing through essays, poetry, and philosophical analysis.
Time is like reading a single page at a time, while eternity is like holding the entire book in your hands and seeing all pages simultaneously.
The journalism of Joan Didion has an askant attitude towards the world. It is as if it has, the result of some sort of carelessness, accidentally fallen out of time and lies there as refuse on the floor waiting for it to be all over.
The unending nature of infinities and forever that repeats over and over through the cosmos and nature's laws in the destiny of a small soul's minute journey through the vastness of space and the immensity of time.
The natural world teaches lessons about human life and its expansion into the spiritual and metaphysical. Winter branches and onions become metaphors for larger truths. Art and music are also inspirations to deeper understanding.
"Vocational" is a micro-narrative that explores the depth of memory particularly through the lens of religion. This poem hopes to have achieved that religion and the spiritual life permeates every choice and is able to be arrived back to after a lapse, while also grappling with the middle.
An intimate look at new and old love, with inherited memories and objects giving life to new ones in nuanced but familiar ways. The poem, rich in texture and sound, allows the reader to situate themselves in the love of once-new things, now washed in the fondness and grief of time passed.
An essay about Cartesian certainty and its role in global scepticism. It is argued that we should reject his views: the condition of certainty imposes on knowledge is too strong to be acceptable to the point that it undermines itself and hence his rationalist project is ultimately self-defeating.
As jackals approach a town, the townspeople must flee before nightfall. They all run except for a deaf girl, mourning her dead rabbit.
This essay is about the applications of virtue ethics - a normative theory of ethics - in everyday life. Normative ethics, virtue ethics, and its applications to self-improvement are discussed.
A series of evocative pieces by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Gusky.
A reflection on daily reading
Is it truly God that causes the grass to grow? Is not the growth of such grass fully explained by science? If matter provides a sufficient explanation, how can God be regarded as the cause?
