Why Wait?
One Sunday I was waiting for the bus to get to church, when I overheard two men talking at the bus stop: Man 1: “Which bus are we waiting for?” […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Celebrity or Friend?
Do you know any celebrities? I mean, we all “know” a lot of celebrities… otherwise, they’re not really celebrities. Of course, many celebrities have a persona that has very little […]
Sleeping with Vampires
As the millionth bus drove past me with an advertisement for the latest installation of the Twilight saga (though this term seems generous as “saga” might usually imply a sustained […]
Why I stopped going to Church
Ah, what power there is in a word. A skilled communicator agonizes over choosing precisely the right word for the occasion—that exact nuance in a verb, a noun, or an […]
If God Does Not Exist
I live in Spain, where one in every three people between 18 and 29 years old don’t believe in the existence of God. Many other countries share a similar statistic. […]
Do scientists believe in God?
One of the common arguments against belief in God is that the majority of scientists in the world do not believe in a higher power. If they don’t believe in […]
The Stoopudest Kind of Prejudice
Last weekend, I saw again the lovely kids’ movie, Gnomeo and Juliet, a great retelling of Shakespeare’s best known work. Aside from the lack of “thee and thou”, it pretty […]
Risks worthy of taking?
Would I hold on to the tree branch or to my sliding shorts? Well, before we arrive at the dilemma: only a week ago eight men and I stood with […]
Intellectual Adoration
Victorian Britain—especially from 1859-1901—it is often described in terms of a “crisis of doubt.” Today we assume that this crisis in Christian thinking developed because of Darwin but, as Owen […]
Celebrity Worship
Hurting from low self-esteem? Here is the latest fix: “celebrity worship.” As curious as this recommendation may sound, it comes from this week’s TIME magazine article analyzing our annual feast […]
