R.I.P., Christopher Hitchens, April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011 (Image from his last article, featured in Vanity Fair) Believers and nonbelievers both have at least one thing in common: We all feel there’s something broken, something wrong with the world. We may disagree on what that brokenness is, but bickering over that makes no [...]
Can We Come Together?
December 16, 2011
The Sacredness of Wants
November 30, 2011
* I’m learning the sacredness of stating my wants. Not wants as in what I want my life to be, like purpose…and also not wants as in the stuff I think I want. But those things in between the conceptual and the material. Things like relationships and past times and conversations. And also the importance [...]
Does Science Show Agnostics are Right?
March 19, 2010
According to this article in The Province, one of the world’s foremost neuroscientists soon will discuss with top theologians how the brain simply cannot comprehend the existence God. “We will never be able to answer the existence of God,” said Georg Northoff, research director of Mind, Brain Imaging, and Neuroethics at the University of Ottawa’s [...]
Conquerers for Christ
February 28, 2010
“[The natives] are so naive and so free with their possessions… [I can get you] as much gold as [you] need and as many slaves as [you] ask. …Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way…” – Christopher Columbus, circa 1492 (In a fundraising letter to Spanish royalty, as [...]
What you didn’t see on TV: Grammy for BEST BELIEFS goes to….
February 1, 2010
“First and foremost, we just want to thank Jesus…” …Yes, I know I touch a very tender spot with this one. You just don’t mess with the creeds. People throughout the centuries suffered for these statements of faith. People today also suffer for these statements. So I know the Christian creeds are precious to millions [...]
