William James, the philosopher, scientist, psychologist, brought it off with a lambent lucidity in 1901-02, when he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion in Edinburgh and later ...

Whenever I take up and reread The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, my spirits soar. My mind takes off and my faith becomes more deeply grounded.

His name was William James and he later become known as William of Albany. “Money is like manure,” Thornton Wilder once said. “It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around ...

Patriarch William James is a quintessential American success story. He was a dirt-poor Irish farm boy who sailed to the new world with a few coins in his pocket, and through grit and good luck as ...