Presentation given at Christ Church United Methodist, Denver, CO, 27 September 2026. The last time I spoke at this seminar I talked about the early medieval philosopher Boethius and his most famous work The Consolation of Philosophy, which was written in AD 523. It is a rumination on the vicissitudes of fate and how faith… Continue reading The Medieval Science Fiction of C. S. Lewis
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The Revolutionary War & Declaration of Independence
Recently I was assigned at work a small writing project to create one-page summaries of the history of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War for a pop-up exhibit kit for libraries. These documents were improved by the editing of one of my colleagues, though still substantially as I had drafted them. The Revolutionary… Continue reading The Revolutionary War & Declaration of Independence
Boethius & The Consolation of Philosophy
This talk today is about the late Roman, early medieval statesman, philosopher and scholar Boethius, and more particularly about his last work, a slim volume of prose and poetry called The Consolation of Philosophy that he wrote in 523 AD. I should say at the outset that I have absolutely no warrant for giving this… Continue reading Boethius & The Consolation of Philosophy
A Social History of Truth
Talk given at Sunday Seminar, United Methodist Church, Denver CO, 26 Sep 2021 I have two things I’d like to talk about today. The main one is a book by historian and sociologist Steven Shapin called A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England [Bookshop.org, WorldCat]. It looks at the early history… Continue reading A Social History of Truth