Writing
Essays
I write about meaning, truth, religion, discipline, and modern life.
Published essays
What Counts as Evidence for God
The sentence "there is no evidence for God" usually hides a narrow theory of evidence. This essay asks what would count instead.
When someone says there is no evidence for God, the most useful question is: what would count as evidence?
When the World Shrinks to Objects
Meaning is universal in experience, but strangely weak in public language. This essay asks how object-talk came to dominate our sense of what is real.
Purpose does not usually come up in polite conversation. Outside religious settings, it can feel too intimate, too grand, or too unstable to bring up.
What Makes Meaning Hold
Some things deepen a life and keep their weight when life gets hard. Others only feel important for a while.
For all the talk about meaning being subjective, people usually make sharper judgments than that in real life.