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?” […]
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?” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]