Bring Your Own Sieve
A Note From the Margins I have never been particularly good at staying in one intellectual lane. Give me enough time and one question will become five. A song sends me looking into the life of the person who wrote it. A novel raises a question about human nature. History wanders into theology, theology bumps into science, science opens a door into philosophy and suddenly I am standing somewhere I had absolutely no intention of going when I started. I like it there. I read widely, listen widely, watch widely and wonder about almost everything. I can be fascinated by Jane Austen and quantum physics, Tchaikovsky and hip-hop, old theology and modern psychology, sometimes within the same afternoon. I don't experience those things as competing interests. They are different windows looking out on the same enormous world. But there is a complication. I have often h...