We want to feel certain, we want to be confident that we know the truth, but we need to remember that reality is big and complicated. In order to act, we have to make judgements about what is true and what is false, but even as we make those judgeme
We tend to think about faith as a state of mind, but when considering faith we need to focus, not on the subject who is believing, but on the object of that belief. We can have faith in something or someone. When we have faith is something, we belie
One question I regularly hear is: can you be a politician and retain your integrity? Is politics such a dirty game that everyone who plays ends up covered in muck? I think there are three short answers.
* Yes, it is possible to be a politicia
The search for truth involves techniques and disciplines which vary between the different areas: the search for truth in a research lab follows one set of rules, in a law court it follows another. But it is always a human activity, and the same basic
