December 2011

The End or the Beginning of Christmas – a Christmas Eve Sermon

“She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His Name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”   So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they

The End or the Beginning of Christmas – a Christmas Eve Sermon Read More »

The Hole in the Center of the Vision

In the two previous posts, the brain is identified as having the extraordinary capacity to find organization within what at first seems chaotic (as when a baby must organize its perceptions of the world around it).  However, sometimes it can go too far: it can attempt to find order where there is none (as with

The Hole in the Center of the Vision Read More »

Colorblindness and Blind Spots

As the last blog pointed out, the human brain has extraordinary capacity, but that capacity also has the ability to get things wrong.  It can indeed take what at first seems chaos, organize it and discover meaning within it.  However, it doesn’t always get things “right” – as identified with the sounds and the colors,

Colorblindness and Blind Spots Read More »