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Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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Question of the Week: What defines truth?

Friday, October 2, 2009

In honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, I thought it would be apt to write about the role of truth in our lives today. Of all of his ideas, Gandhiji had truth as the basis for everything — so much so that he titled his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Given that so [...]

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How do we fight the detractors of Hinduism?

Sunday, October 5, 2008

I came upon today an article about the falsehood of idolatry (main article), written by Mike Shreve, an interesting man with an interesting history, an admirable breadth of knowledge and understanding, and a firm belief that Christianity is the correct path.
My first tendency — the desire for conflict I mentioned in my previous post — [...]

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