Why are we so moved by sacrifice?

A few years ago my wife Katherine and I were on the island of Crete. After catching a train on a hot day we wandered hesitantly through a strange neighbourhood, and finally found what we were looking for: a cemetery for the Allied soldiers who fought in World War...

Thank God for the skeptics

I’m deeply grateful for skeptics. I’m grateful because I’m one of them. Not easily persuaded of the incredible. Wary of the too-good-to-be-true. I’m grateful because when a fellow skeptic is finally convinced that something remarkable really is true, it’s much...