Who are the “good Christians”?
Most of us who fall into the “Christian” category walk around with at least some conception of a “good Christian” in our heads. It might not be a very good conception. It might not […]
Author Archives: Ryan
Don’t Take Your Religion So Seriously!
A recent review of American Grace, a sociological study of religion in America, came to the conclusion that in an ethnically and ideologically diverse culture where religion is increasingly seen […]
We Know What We Have to Do (But Knowing Isn’t Enough)
Canadians are, apparently, shaving an average of six years off of our lives due to our poor habits and lifestyle choices. According to a recent study, “alcohol, cigarettes, lack of […]
Matters of Truth
The most boring question you can ask of any religion is whether it is true. So says Alain de Botton, philosopher, writer, and founder of an organization called “The School […]
Signalling Virtue
The ability to interact online is a marvelous gift and one that, as someone who has been blogging for nearly a decade, I am immensely appreciative of. But to the […]
Making Our Mark
“If our life were without end and free from pain, it would possibly not occur to anyone to ask why the world exists.” So said German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer around […]
Question Time
There’s a scene in Canadian author David Adams Richards’ latest novel, Principles to Live By where John Delano, a washed up police officer trying to get back in the game, […]
What Are We Asking For?
A clergy friend and I were talking over coffee recently about how being in this line of work is something of a magnet for human pain. As soon as people […]
Man Seeks (Straightforward) God
Over the last decade or so, the conversation about God and religion in the public square has been dominated by the extremes. Whether angry atheists convinced that religion “poisons everything” […]
I’m Biased (And So Are You)
Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities —— […]
Wondering Fair 