I’ve gotten to know people with an incredible variety of beliefs regarding God’s existence. I cherish those friendships and conversations that I’ve had. If you sense a “but” coming, you’re wrong, generally speaking. One of those people is Derek Colanduno of the Skepticality podcast. While he and I don’t know each other particularly well, we’ve [...]

We’ve been talking a lot about idolatry at church lately. The working definition that seems to be used for an idol is “anything that you express or feel more love for than you do for God”. Given that most folks don’t worship idols in the same sense that they did hundreds or thousands of years [...]

I felt pretty sure that I blogged about this before, but I couldn’t find anything, so here goes. A little movie came out recently called Courageous. I haven’t seen it, but it’s done by the same church that put out Fireproof and Facing the Giants. I have seen both of those and they’re not horrible. [...]

How should we treat immigrants? The Bible has a little to say: Exodus 22:21 “You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Leviticus 19:33-34 – “And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. The stranger who dwells among [...]

I have a solution to one of the problems that’s been plaguing the Middle East for some time now. Just make Palestine a state. It’s the Christian thing to do. Wait, wait, hear me out. According to certain traditional Christian thought, the land that Israel now occupies is at least in part the land that [...]

I’m not sure if it’s truly ennui, or if it’s just being overly busy with regular life stuff, but either way my brain hasn’t had much room for this part of my online life. I re-upped for another year here though so I plan on carving out some headspace. I hope I have a few [...]