Justin Bailey

In his autobiography, Lewis writes that as he was being steeped in naturalistic materialism, he also was falling in love with Norse mythology. These two spheres of his inner world were so distinct, he writes, that it made it necessary almost to write two different…

What is real? Naturalism takes the possibility of super-natural off the table from beginning.  It is natural-ism, after all. But if we insist on explaining everything in terms of sense and science, then this leaves us with rather mechanical explanations of everything we experience. Joy…

One of my resolutions for the new year was to have a better plan for this blog.  And so here are some things I'm working on right now, or at least some things to expect from me in 2012.  My goal is to: 1) Write…

In my last post, I wrote about how we had spent the balance of the day hiking through the Toklat River Valley to get to a campsite marked on the map near the Toklat Visitor's center. When we reached the visitor's center - exhausted - we met…

After the previous day's jaunt through "Bear Canyon", we elected to sleep in and let our bodies recover a little.  We started our hike at about 11:00. Despite the rest, we were pretty sore, and the first hour was excruciating.  It was at least a…

Day Two: Bears Coming into the glacier path, it wasn't long before we met up with the East Fork of the Toklat river again.  This meant that we would need to do some crossings where the river threaded most thinly. Here is where knee-length or…