Tag: James P. Carse

• You Know That Fear Thing

  Having a religious upbringing didn’t give me the tools to reconcile faith and fear. Faith and fear were considered mutually exclusive.  In fact, I can recall sermons where I was told that lack of faith was sinful. I can even find the relevant scripture. So all in all, to doubt or to be afraid was […]

  Andrew Whalan

  May 5, 2015

  Opinions-Editorial, Religion

  belief, blind faith, doubt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Faith, fear, James P. Carse, Love, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, The Religious Case Against Belief, Unbelief

• The Book That Changed My Life: Finite and Infinite Games.

  From the first part of the title, you may expect this blog will implore you to read the Bible, Koran, or any of the other holy writings that have changed people’s lives. Perhaps your second thought is that I’m recommending a self-help book that turned my life around. Sorry.The book that changed my life was […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 14, 2012

  Personal

  Bible, Billion Dollar Brain, Canberra, Determinacy, Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse, Len Deighton, Quran