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What Makes an Intellectual?
January 30, 2011 – 1:03 am | One Comment
What Makes an Intellectual?

The modern intellectual engages in thought without end, for all purpose would be denounced as agenda or ideology. Restless before this convergence of freedom and uselessness, his occupation takes a critical turn and becomes the mere dissecting of all the interested buzz of the world of practical action.

The Animal Industrial Complex
January 4, 2011 – 11:26 pm | No Comment
The Animal Industrial Complex

The animal industrial complex achieves the annual slaughter of in excess of 56 billion farmed animals, and that number is on an upward trajectory.

Approaching Vrindavan’s Environmental Conservation
December 8, 2010 – 12:58 am | No Comment
Approaching Vrindavan’s Environmental Conservation

What is an appropriate language for Vrindavan conservation efforts?

Distribution in Danger
November 26, 2010 – 1:52 am | One Comment
Distribution in Danger

When the fear of destruction comes, whether individual or collective, we shall try our best to utilize our time with the high conception, within divinity. It is also admirable when the apprehension of danger is acute and yet one runs there to perform relief work.

Are the Faithful More Gullible?
November 24, 2010 – 1:49 am | 7 Comments
Are the Faithful More Gullible?

Major scams in recent years have targeted Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, black churches and other denominations, from $190 million lost in a scam promoted by a Christian radio host to an estimated $1.4 billion conned from thousands of Utah Mormons.

Tender Moments: Meeting Madhumangala
November 14, 2010 – 12:58 am | 11 Comments
Tender Moments: Meeting Madhumangala

Hearing Madhumangala’s reply, Krishna sighed in relief and said, “Come then, let’s go and join my other cowherd friends.”

Srila Prabhupada’s Dedication and Empowerment
November 9, 2010 – 1:03 am | 20 Comments
Srila Prabhupada’s Dedication and Empowerment

Prabhupada’s empowerment in krsna-sakti was so extensive that Krishna nama would appear on the tongue of even those who simply saw one of his disciples.

In Praise of the Guardian of Devotion
October 31, 2010 – 12:52 am | 4 Comments
In Praise of the Guardian of Devotion

A brief but affectionate glorification of Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhara Deva Goswami Maharaja by his dear Godbrother, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

The Truth About Altruism
October 22, 2010 – 10:03 am | One Comment
The Truth About Altruism

Doubting altruism is easy, even when it seems at first glance to be apparent.

Yoga: The New Antichrist
October 12, 2010 – 11:58 pm | 3 Comments
Yoga: The New Antichrist

I can’t help thinking: what are they afraid of? Non-Christians absorb through osmosis countless doses of Christian theology. We sing Christmas carols like they’re pop tunes. Yet, despite the relentless exposure, there is no sign of mass conversion.

Religion, Science, and the Academy
September 20, 2010 – 5:40 am | 9 Comments
Religion, Science, and the Academy

A number of the university scientists suggested that their colleagues begin to change their perspective by rejecting scientism, a disciplinary imperialism that leads them to assert that science is the only valid way of knowing and that it can be used to interpret all other forms of knowledge.