TWO ANCIENT ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHERS While preparing for one of my Zoom classes I was struck by the contrast between the philosophies of the Buddha “The Enlightened One” (or “the One who Woke Up”) and Confucius (“Kung Fu-tzu”) two of the greatest thinkers of ancient world. Putting it bluntly, Buddha was a solitary figure who refused…

Where is the New Testament?             After writing about the various Christian denominations, I realized that the major Christian creeds have nothing to say about the New Testament. They list the important doctrines to be believed, almost all of which are found in one way or another in the New Testament writings, but they never…