By Richard Knox We live in a secular society -- who can deny it? We’re marked by our relentless focus on materialism and preoccupation with what established religions call “worldly” concerns. Recent statistics bear this out. In the early-1950s nearly half of all Americans went to church regularly. Today fewer than a third do. And yet, lately the nation has been seeing a rise in the proportion of Americans who identify as “spiritual but not religious.” About seven in ten peop

By Richard Knox A blogger I follow is an amateur astronomer and celestial photographer. His main mission is politics, but at the end of...

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”                                           --- Henry David Thoreau   By Richard Knox   OK,...

- By Richard Knox Music is an emotive art. It can arouse a gamut of feelings, touching parts of our soul beyond logic and analysis....

By Richard Knox Charles Darwin was prescient about many things, but music was a black box to him. He couldn’t figure out why humans...

By Richard Knox We live in a troubled time. The world is beset by worries about a brutal European war with an unimaginable outcome. At...

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By Richard Knox Every last one of us has had, or will have, an encounter with the Sacred Veil of which the New Hampshire Master Chorale...