There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
I started teaching my 6 week class for adult ed at church yesterday. I thought I’d post the summary of each class as we finish. But…not tonight, I just walked in the door after working all day. Instead, here’s a video of John Cleese making a point about reductionism.
Perhaps you might need [...]
Another head sketch.
Here’s fascinating article from the Wall Street Journal website.
After spending last year in an ongoing debate via email with a “new atheist,” I found this article pretty interesting. Apparently studies show that atheists are far more likely to believe in superstition and pseudoscience than Christians.
(HT: STR)
There’s a show on the Noggin network (a station that unfortunately has my nephew in its heroine-like grasp) that featured its cast of anthropomorphized characters having their own Olympics. The tiger demonstrated the most athletic prowess (Hmmm…tigers are Asian. What are they trying to say?) The tiger however was very arrogant in [...]
Today I came across an interesting article about brain activity and vegetative states. Just before my dad died, he was unconscious and moved to an intensive care unit, where after less than 24 hours a doctor we had never seen before walks in a says, rather nonchalantly, that we should just pull the [...]
A few weeks ago I got into a brief conversation revolving around God’s “gender”. The person I was talking to referred to God as “he” and immediately said:
“Or SHE. I can’t believe I just said “he”.
“So you have a problem with God being a ‘he’?” I asked.
“Yeah.”
“Why is that?”
“Why does it [...]
I don’t write very much about what I read. I made a long list of books last year that I wanted to tackle, but failed miserably making much headway through them. Most of the books I read weren’t on the list. I stumbled across them in different ways, and a few of [...]
The heart without the mind makes us foolish. The mind without the heart makes us cruel.
There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.
Blaise Pascal, Pensees XI 149
As I look back at what I learned over the course of 2007, one of the things that immediately springs to mind is something I came to realize over the course of a few months. That is, if you’re going to discuss Christianity in an intelligent way, or attempt to, with an unbeliever [...]
I noticed recently that there’s a “debate” group on facebook entitled “What role should the personal faith of a President play in his/her decision-making?” I browsed through briefly and noticed a few things. First, that the word “debate” has fallen prey to some serious equivocation in our culture. This isn’t a debate, [...]
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it,it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. [...]
Sometimes I don’t understand the lengths people will go to attempt to defend their positions. I’m not going to pretend that Christians are innocent of nonsensical arguments, as detractors are so adept at pointing out…but this unfortunate characteristic is a human condition, not merely a Christian one.
How about this attempt I recently [...]
They have no knowledge of the thoughts in his [Moses] mind, but they are in love with their own opinions, not because they are true, but because they are their own. If this were not so, they would have equal respect for the opinions of others, provided that they were consistent with the truth, [...]
I don’t mean to be a curmudgeon. But in recent years, as I reflect on my faith and think about the heritage of Christianity and those who have come before, there’s a lot that I don’t get about current trends in our corporate worship. Certain lyrics, for example, leave me a bit puzzled…especially [...]
Alisa had mentioned in her post, Living Simply, that we were talking about simplifying our lives the other night at church. She makes a good point, that the simplification of our lives is, itself, not that simple. The process seems a battle with the hydra…we chop off one head and five others [...]
.. in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.
Ecc. 1:18
The message of your Holy Scriptures has set my heart throbbing, O Lord, and with the meager powers that are mine in this life I struggle hard to understand it. The poverty of our human intellect generally produces an abundance of words, for more talk is spent in search than in discovery. It [...]
Can we truly expect something to be true of a community of believer (”church”) that isn’t true of ourselves individually? When Acts 2 talks of the church being “devoted to the apostles teaching, to the fellowship and the breaking of bread, and to prayer,” can we expect to just avoid making spending significant time [...]
In Genesis, God said that it was not good that man be alone, so he created woman. Even though Adam had uninterrupted fellowship with God, it seems he needed human interaction in order to be complete. So the question came up, isn’t God enough? If God were enough then why would man need [...]