The psychological discomfort of cognitive dissonance can be a result of mutually competing or even contradictory beliefs. Rather than argue about the beliefs themselves, it may be more productive to talk about the person’s motivation for clutching on to a possible false belief at the expense of what might be true.

Jesus wept when he saw the agony his friends were going through after the death of Lazarus. This has powerful implications for we who weep.

I have come to greatly value the last words and wisdom of a thoughtful person who is on the brink of eternity. My good friend Bob passed these notes on to me a few weeks before he died.

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has argued that free will is an illusion. Rational thought, however, reveals that the basis for her conclusion not only collapses, but the default position for a scientist ought to be that free will is real and we have it.