Henri Bergson was born in 1859, the same year as John Dewey and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published. His major works were Time and Freewill (1889), An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), Creative Evolution (1907), and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Bergson taught at the University of Paris for…

I put three question marks in the title because very few people off-hand know anything about this little four-chapter story buried deep in the Old Testament. Ruth is a kind of love story set in the land of Judah “in the time of the Judges”. A famine arose in the land and so Naomi and…