(Part 1 of this interview is Interview with an Actor in an Upcoming Bud Super Bowl Commercial (Part 1.) I put Part 2 here because in it soon-to-be-famous actor Tim Hornor and I talk about Christian stuff.) John: What did you actually have to do in your audition for the Super Bowl commercial? Tim: They brought us into the room in groups of four or five, pointed to a spot on the wall and told us to look at it... Read more
Today’s question (“Why does everyone go nuts over famous people, when they’re just like non-famous ones?”) was sent to me from a reader with the fun and pretty name of Latoya. Latoya is from Jamaica. Latoya: Even if you hadn’t told me you were from Jamaica, I would have known that you were from some country that definitely wasn’t America. Because here in America there are actually certain towns where you can be arrested for suggesting that famous people are... Read more
A reader named Jess wrote to ask, “Mr. Answers, do pigs sweat?” Good question, Jess! I’m preferring not to wonder why you’ve asked it—but good question! Since time immemorial the worlds’ greatest philosophers, scientists, and artists have pondered the eternal question of porcine perspiration. As the inimitable William Shakespeare put it in his famous Love Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love’s breath?... Read more
I thought worth sharing was this reader’s response to my post, Christian Marrying a Non-Christian? Marriage: FAIL : I am a Christian who was married to an atheist; after twenty-two years, we are now divorced. I understand and agree with a lot of the dissenting comments made to John’s post. However, ultimately I agree with John. A successful marriage is so much about respect, patience and kindness. This can, of course, occur among Christian and Non-Christian alike. And alcoholism, cheating... Read more
This interview is long—so lemme keep this intro short. A little while back I met a young actor named Tim Hornor. In the course of our Party Small Talk, Tim told me that he’d just filmed a commercial for Budweiser that was going to play during the Super Bowl. I said, “I can’t believe you’re going to be in a Super Bowl commercial! I must interview you for my blog!” He shrugged, and said, “Sure. Okay.” So here is Part... Read more
Based on the enduring lack of conclusive, objectively verifiable, purely empirical evidence, agnostics claim to simply not know whether or not there’s a God. As a rational response to the question of God, it’s an unassailable stance. All emotions, intuition, and inspiration aside—all subjective persuasions aside—the unadorned fact remains that we don’t know whether or not there’s a God. Struggle though so many do to muddle the two categories of knowledge, belief remains separate from fact. (more…) Read more
Thanks for the question, Daniel Gurtner! “Echo Rand” was a favorite game of children in medieval times. Especially popular throughout Northern Europe and for some reason in what is now Laos, it consisted of one blindfolded child being surrounded by many of his or her playmates and the occasional village idiot. The blindfolded child was the “rand” of the game; “rand” being how people used to say “grand” before, in 1632, the letter “g” was invented. “I’m rand!” the child... Read more
This past Sunday I went to a meeting of a church men’s group. The group was in session #20 (!) of a series it was doing called (something like) “Finding Your Authentic Manhood.” Just before offering my idea about exactly where each man in the room could find his authentic manhood, it occurred to me to shut-up. Staying quiet was easy to do, too, because what the thirty or so men in the room were doing when I showed up... Read more
Atheists, to be fair, should more often admit that the belief that there is no God is, in every sense of the word, a belief—as opposed to a fact. It’s a guess. It’s a reasonable guess, to be sure. But it’s absurd to suggest that it’s any more reasonable a guess than that there is a God. Humans are designed to induce universal truths from limited evidence. Atheists look around, and induce there’s no God. Given the exact same range of... Read more
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John 1:6-15: Read It and Weep
Hi, guys. Today I’m looking at John 1:6-15. Here we go: There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. [For those of you who might not know, The Gospel According to John was written by John when he was an old man looking back at the time when, as a much younger man, he was one of Jesus’ core twelve disciples. The John to whom he here refers is a different John, John the Baptist. John... Read more