Is God moral? A monster? Or both? Read more
Is God moral? A monster? Or both? Read more
God created a good world and put humankind it that world to explore, play, and build civilizations. We sometimes have not done well at these tasks, building cities on the flanks of volcanos, torturing each other, and making a muddle of things. Civilizations make people happier, but also increase our discontents. In the light of eternity, where we will live in the future, all of this might seem unimportant, but it is a school for our souls. A proverb says: It is... Read more
Why are “white” people “my own?” Read more
When I heard Katy Tur (Trump called her Little Katy) had written a book, I was glad. Here was a person who had suffered from the ugliness and lies of the Trump campaign. For those of us who were NeverTrump, Katy Tur was heroic: Katy at the bridge fighting off the barbarians. Read her book and you cannot believe that any more. Instead, you get a person who chooses to open her book galivanting in Paris with a trivial boyfriend.... Read more
Hillary! That was the campaign: depending on how you reacted to Hillary! you could vote for anyone (even Trump) rather than Hillary! or were thrilled to send her back to the White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton probably was going to win the 2016 election. She was given the most disliked opponent in American history who made mistake after mistake. She had more money, big name entertainers who worked for free, and the large DNC machine that had elected Barack Obama twice.... Read more
If Darwin was right, then let us follow him, but surely we can ask if he was wrong. Read more
Strange things happen all the time, but reality makes some people crazy. They are afraid of anything odd. This is the kind of Christian (God help us) who talks about “evil-lution” and starts joking about how atheists are related to monkeys. “That’s so weird . . . ” is not much of an argument in a universe with the duckbilled platypus. Never trust the person who mocks a thing because he thinks it sounds silly. This is the sort of chap... Read more
Adam exists, probably. He surely exists as an image, an icon of our failures, and our need for help. Am I sure Adam existed as an historical human person? No. That is my working hypothesis and I think it defensible. It is the most natural interpretation of the data we have gained from divine revelation, but has problems based on present scientific understandings. Adam and Eve? I think so, but perhaps not. Christians can persist in belief in Adam and Eve given the... Read more
I have known men who were most at home in the woods. They know the patterns of nature and were never happier than when following those patterns. They live in the seasons. I have friends who are only comfortable when in the city, immersed with people, and they are highly skilled at telling me what is happening in society. Education tends to one or the other direction: country or town, nature or civilization. Yet civilization we are told has her... Read more
Charity fatigue is evidently real: people are being asked to give to flood relief in Houston, hurricane relief in Florida, and for a variety of local causes. We have so many people we would like to help that we might end up helping nobody. The same problem can apply to “causes.” Should we help end the killing of children through legal abortion? Fight racial injustice in the United States? Work to see that the poor are treated with dignity? Help... Read more
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