by Forrest Peterson | Jan 1, 2026 | Words on Paper
Morgan Freeman interviews Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher who appears in “The Story of God” series, discussing Buddhist views on the divine. (National Geographic photo in Variety). It’s Sunday morning. I’m looking out the window at snowflakes...
by Forrest Peterson | Nov 28, 2025 | Words on Paper
Bison have the right-of-way across a road through Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN. Many mornings looking out a back window I enjoy seeing the sunrise glinting across rolling fields rimmed by woodlands. Two hundred years ago and more the landscape was all prairie....
by Forrest Peterson | Mar 19, 2025 | Words on Paper
A 15-foot-tall balloon set up last fall by Faithful America didn’t stay up very long. In simpler times, faith meant believing in the spiritual, without science or solid physical reality, old church relics notwithstanding. For most people in pre-modern times, the...
by Forrest Peterson | Dec 25, 2024 | Words on Paper
Today being Christmas Day, this post appears in lieu of the next scheduled post in the Words on Paper series. “Important books that shaped and reflected America 1950-2000” will appear next week. Merry Christmas! – Forrest In choosing a batch of Christmas cards each...
by Forrest Peterson | Dec 11, 2024 | Words on Paper
A discussion of literature, philosophy, and important books, without including religious literature, misses out on vast amounts of thought about the human condition. Yet, that’s what seems to happen when you do a contemporary search for “important literature that...
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