“Cosmic Optimism”

    I published this column back in the late 1990s, in the Provo Daily Herald:   In a world filled with violence, poverty, suffering, illness, accidental death, disappointment, frustration, and hatred, pessimism is an ever-beckoning possibility.  And, for some, pessimism shades eventually into utter despair, hopelessness, and cynicism. In the long term, the secular […]