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My Identity Problem

Posted on April 21, 2026 by Abigail

The title of this column tilts and teeters into a complaint so hackneyed – so yesterday – that even alluding to it might put one at social risk among the smart set. This although just a few years back, mores … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Spiritual Story: Abigail’s Confessions on Childhood, Time, and Spiritual Awakening

Posted on February 24, 2026 by Abigail

Abbie is in California this week for health treatments. She asks me to send the video below, where she and her husband, Jerry L. Martin from God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, discuss her early life from childhood’s moments of truth … Continue reading →

Is There Still Any “Woman Question”?

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Abigail

In recent years, Jerry has been urging me to write something about women. This because, in his observation, I genuinely like – even love – women! He thinks this a credential for writing on the topic, since a lot of … Continue reading →

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Persons Real and Unreal

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Abigail

During the week just passed, I’ve gotten three invitations to enter into consequential interactions with correspondents who represented themselves as persons but in fact were not persons. What precedents are there for such an experience, in life or literature? Jewish … Continue reading →

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The Stroke of Lightning

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Abigail

Tonight I want to revisit an experience whose status in modern culture is typically regarded with skepticism. The French call it the stroke of lightning (le coup de foudre). It’s the sudden descent/visitation of romantic love. It’s not the same … Continue reading →

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Here Be Dragons

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Abigail

These days, I’m taking in the impact of two recent books: Jonathan Leaf’s The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature and Jeffrey Kripal’s Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and … Continue reading →

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Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Beginningwise, Part 2

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Abigail

Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions Continue reading →

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Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions: Preface, Part 3

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Abigail

Today Dr. Jerry L. Martin and Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal (author of Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column) carry forward last week’s discussion of her new book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher. Let’s see how their discussion continues. *** *** Jerry: You just believed in … Continue reading →

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