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Fibonacci Faith

Your Religious Pursuits: Manic Spirituality or Peaceful Intimacy

The sad reality with all this is that a manic search for perfection will inevitably become the very thing that puts true meaning, peace, and intimacy out of reach.

Cranach

Family and Secularization

"A lot of the welfare state is actually picking up the pieces of the fractured western family."

Re-generacion

Saving Guatemala, Rios Montt & the Silence of Complicity

We gravitate and only accept information if it confirms what we already believe, we dismiss information that contradicts our pre-determined biases.

Christ and Pop Culture

Star Trek Into Misogynistic Darkness?

What vision of the good life are we buying into? What narratives and metaphors have we adopted?

Eidos

If Left Alone: What My Grandchildren Will See

The wages of sin is always death: cultural, economic, and social death.

Roger E. Olson

Practical Implications of Satanic Realism

Much evil in the world, in my opinion, cannot be explained solely by means of human sin.

Good Letters

Why We Can't Look Away

The body that suffers is still a body, and it is not enough for us to move through our days numbly, fearful of suffering ourselves.

Pilgrim's Road Trip

40+ And The Church / The Connected Have Their Say

Beyond talk, I believe we need some prayerful, soul-searching conversation about how to cultivate growth in people in every stage of life.

Uncommon God, Common Good

Idol Makers

How can our churches with their symbols be viewed as sacred when they are built by human hands, and not the creation at large, when it is built by the hand of God?

Karen Spears Zacharias

How she sees the world

She is totally on her own. The only possible way for her to know what to do in a concert is by listening.

Jesus Creed

Daniel Dennett's Unfollowed Rule of Charity

A list of rules promulgated many years ago by social psychologist and game theorist Anatol Rapoport.

Video Gallery

Sacred Bodies of Water