Should Government Suppress Human Autonomy?
Should human beings have the right to eat, drink, game, and spend ourselves into oblivion without the state getting involved? Should the government be allowed to save us from our […]
Author Archives: Ryan
Thank You. For Now
The mind of a teenage boy is, I am discovering, a fearful and wonderful thing. Beautiful, strange, unpredictable, irrational, surprisingly generous, unspeakably kind, maddening… All within a few hours, sometimes. […]
Christ Have Mercy
A while back I was talking over coffee with a young man who had spent several months studying primate social behaviour in Africa. I asked him what, if anything, had […]
Something New
The story of Christmas is little more than one enormous fiction. So I was grimly informed in a recent conversation. Emmanuel, “God with us,” the “humble king” and all that—just […]
Formulas and Faith
What is the motivation for Christian faith? Do those who follow Jesus do so because of what they can get out of the deal? Is our faith contingent upon the experience of blessing/goodness? In […]
Prove It
A Saturday night around the table with friends, and the conversation turns to philosophy… “Philosophy is kinda interesting,” one friend said, “but it can get frustrating. You can never prove anything. […]
For Christ’s Sake?!
Monday is my rest day and one of the things I usually do at some point in the day is walk the dog and listen to a sermon on my iPod. I […]
What If?
Do you ever wonder about what might have been? What if I had taken that job? What if I had moved to that city or stayed in that city? What […]
Tell me: What is the Meaning of Life?
“Would you be interested in coming to give a short talk to a group of high school/university students?” The question came a while back and, as is my customary practice, I […]
Tell Me A Story About Who I Am
Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? What is that makes “us” a “we?” Some combination of these questions is nearly always whirring around in the background of […]
Wondering Fair 