“I get that slavery was bad, but it’s in the past. Why can’t people just get over it? And why do I have to do something about it? I never owned any slaves.” Those comments shocked and unsettled me then and have remained with me ever since. Implicit in her dismissal of historical offenses was […]
God-talk and the Suffering of the Guilty
Suffering is the rule of a ruined paradise. Endemic to the human experience, suffering has vexed our species since its beginning after the Garden. The sufferer anguishes, and the one spared from suffering is spared only for a time. Death, with its many living permutations, comes to all. What is this source of suffering? Humanity […]
Viral Reason
Facts — cheap, plentiful; too many, too often, too varied. The farmer, banker, liberal, conservative, Christian, atheist — they can all go outside, look up at the same sky, feel the same breeze, see the same blue, notice that same storm unfurling in the horizon – clouds rolling, it draws nearer. But why go outside? […]
Is Tolerance Enough?
The world is still reeling from President Trump’s recent comments about whether we really need more Haitian immigrants and how African nations are “s***hole countries (1). Perhaps even more shocking than his abhorrent comments is the fact that there are people who continue to adamantly affirm his rancor, revealing the heart of a nation that […]
An Examination of Carbon Dating
It is accepted by many scientists, teachers, students, the media, and the average well-informed modern person, that billions of years ago our universe came into being by rapidly expanding and cooling, and some blob of matter congealed into our Earth, that millions of years ago life appeared and evolved, producing man hundreds of thousands of […]
After Eden
We were never the same after Eden. Sin’s rift is the eternal barrier, a vulnerability coded into every person’s DNA so that we cannot attain Eden. No one since the fall has even tasted that perfection; in fact, beyond momentary glimpses, no one even knows what perfection is. But we strive onward for it. Eden […]