Religion, Violence, and the “Higher Questions”
When my kids were younger, I would often take refuge from the delights of dragging unwilling toddlers through a shopping mall by camping out for a few minutes at one […]
Author Archives: Ryan
Are we better off with the internet?
There was this funny YouTube video last week. Somebody posted it on Facebook. Or tweeted it. Or something like that. It was very clever and witty and it got all […]
Truth: Why Bother?
“The more scientifically literate, intellectually honest, and objectively sceptical a person is, the more likely they are to disbelieve in anything supernatural, including god.” So begins a video compilation assembled by British […]
A God Who Plays Dead
During the times in my life when I have made my predictable (and predictably pathetic and sporadic) attempts at running regularly, I have done what many runners apparently do, which […]
Happy Endings
I was recently listening to a radio interview with a certain person who had been the victim of a terrible crime. The conversation touched on the unlikelihood of “justice” being […]
State of Nature
I have observed, over the past few months, that many major blogs and news sources have taken to disabling or at least heavily moderating the comments on their websites. Here […]
Thick and Thin
To be an inhabitant of twenty-first century postmodern West is to be well-acquainted with at least some expression of the cultural battle between science and faith. Whether it is a […]
A Small But Tenacious Flame
To be a person of faith is to be well-acquainted with waiting. It is to be well-practiced in living in the in-between time of the world as it is and […]
Saving the World
Each person on the planet, regardless of how officially religious or ideological they might claim to be, lives according to an implicit or explicit narrative that offers answers to big […]
Driven to Distraction
When I first moved to a big city, it took a bit of time get used to public transit. For a prairie boy accustomed to wide open spaces, it was […]
Wondering Fair 