Coming back with a BOOM! So I was talking to a friend yesterday, and it came out that they’re a polygamist. They’re “in the closet” about it, but their identity isn’t important. It’s likely no one that you know. Still, the discussion led to me apologizing for the drubbing that people of my faith have [...]

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 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 [...]

Leigh and I got into one of our famous rows the other morning about Christians who are also homosexual.  The general consensus among many Christians seems to be that if you are a Christian you cannot be a homosexual and vice versa.  Another old saw is that once you become a Christian, God will convict [...]

Student claims nose stud is religious symbol | abc11.com. Have a look at this video.  The young lady has a sincerely held “religious” belief.  I’m not asking if you think there’s any truth inherent in her religion, but I’m curious to know a few things.  What, in your mind, constitutes a religion?  Does she have [...]

So I heard about this on NPR and now read about it at the Washington Post, the Christian Legal Society is going to battle for its right to discriminate against homosexuals and non-Christians. Apparently the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law has a policy that if you are to be an officially recognized [...]

Thanks to my good friend Shawn and his lovely wife Jess I got to see Richard Dawkins last night. When he asked me if I wanted to go, I jumped at the chance. After all the man is practically a rock star in his community. I even referred to this commercial for Intel: I wonder [...]

Yeah, not that kind of choice. I read a news story this morning that is sure to get many parents I know into a major uproar (perhaps rightfuly so). A New Hampshire court ruled that a girl “would best be served by exposure to public school setting in which she would be challenged to solve [...]

On Friday I posed an informal twitter poll, “as a Christian are you a) Young Earth Creationist b) Old Earth Creationist or c) Other (details?)”. As usual I got an interesting crop of answers to this. Before we get to the details though, a little clarification of what may be considered inside baseball (a term [...]