Thinking About It

Steve Propp most often writes novels with serious intellectual themes. But this nonfiction book contains writings and essays dealing with a wide variety of topics in the areas of science religion philosophy and politics. The first section includes expansions of topics that were briefly covered in his earlier nonfiction book Inquiries: Philosophical (2002). Subjects include: Science and the Multiverse; Time Travel; Extraterrestrial Life; Artificial Intelligence; Life after Death and more. The second section consists of twelve Lay Sermons such as could be addressed to a religious congregation on topics such as: the Image of God; the Problem of Suffering; Social Justice; Forgiveness; hurtful divisions based on gender sexual orientation etc.; Negative images in the mass media and others. The third section contains thirty brief topical essays such as: Family; Education; Loneliness; Freedom; Authority; Justice; Progress; Individuality; Civility; Technology; Emotions; and even Holidays. The final section has several previously unpublished writings.