Earlier this week I was scanning a series of quoted letters giving opinions for and against holding Tai Ji classes in a church hall. For some, Tai Ji was a covert conspiracy to ensnare Christians into evil; for others it was a healthy exercise of mind and body, entirely appropriate for a church hall offered [...]

The circumstances surrounding the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi seem to have thrown into relief the way humanity is still struggling to reach a truly moral level. Let me explain what I mean. I think of our justice concepts as going through three levels (a bit related to Kohlberg’s “stages of moral development”).
First was vengeance; that [...]

As I was a late developer in social relations, I tend to stop and think about interactions that others carry out automatically, such as who does what when I pass someone in the street. In this instance my starting point is a combination of my (well suppressed) mammalian brain that wants to go up to [...]