Author: David Lowry
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Religion and the Liberal Bargain
In his book, The Religious Test, Damon Linker describes what he calls The Liberal Bargain. It works like this. In America, we are given a constitutional right for Freedom of Religion. In order to have this freedom, no religion can exert control over others. The moment one religion decides to use the legal process to exert control…
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Oil Sadness
I was born and raised in West Texas when oil was plentiful and jobs in the industry were common place. I was weaned on a car that got ten miles to a gallon of gas and the cost for a gallon was only 25 cents. None of us were concerned about the availability and cost…
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The Future of the Capitalist System
I am neither an economist nor political scientist. What I am is an observant person who follows trends and trusts his instincts–and this is what mine are telling me about the future of capitalism. Capitalism, arguably the greatest wealth creation system ever invented, has at least three tremendous tendencies embedded within it that cannot be…
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Laughing Yoga
I taught Yoga for a number of years. I’m a big believer in the health benefits (both mental and physical) that it brings. The word yoga means “union.” Like all physical exercise, yoga is a process with the potential to unite our physical and spiritual well-being. The first is something that can happen right away while the second…
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Charter for Compassion
From Wikipedia. Karen Armstrong is known for her books on comparative religion and wrote a well-recognized book A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Her work focuses on commonalities of the major religions, such as the importance of compassion and the Golden Rule.
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Free Speech in the Age of Charlie Hebdo
Here is the Prezi of a speech I prepared for Seekers’ Chapel. I haven’t written out my comments so some of the Prezi slides may not make as much sense as others. The main point of the speech was…”even though we live in a country that values free speech, there is a point where free…
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What’s Acceptable?
I believe the root of all human discord can be traced to contrary opinions about “What’s acceptable?” This question, composed of two words, does more to cause personal misery and divides people, nations and organizations.