​I am a Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University.  I think about questions concerning what we are, what God is like, what life after death may be like, and what it takes to live a flourishing life.  I may never satisfactorily answer these questions, but I believe trying to answer them in the temporally and spatially scattered community of thinkers both great and small (and obviously I'm in the latter category) will make me not only a better thinker but also a better and happier person.

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Philosophy is not merely a job for me.  I desire to be a genuine lover of wisdom.  I am neither wise nor very good at loving wisdom.  Thankfully, there are exemplars who are wise and love wisdom.  They lived a certain way, and I strive to emulate their life.  Along the way, I sometimes write, speak, teach, and preach, and through that undertaking I hope that some will become inspired to pursue Goodness, Truth, and Beauty.