$100 Billion Dollars to Find E.T.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner recently announced their joint plan in spending $100 billion US dollars to find signs of intelligent life in the cosmos. […]
The Grand Inquisitor
In one of the most electrifying chapters of all of world literature, Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky imagines an unexpected arrival of Jesus Christ in Seville, Spain, during the height of […]
Who the devil believes that?
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell” ~ Oscar Wilde. “If Satan wasn’t around, churches would go out of business” ~ Marilyn Manson. The […]
On Present and Future Selves
Unlike animals that live in the moment and merely cope with the world (however smoothly), we are… drawn out of our present selves toward some more skilled future self that […]
Is God Pro-Genocide?
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; […]
Transforming Christian Faith
In mid-May the Pew Research Center released the finding from its 2014 Religious Landscape Study. The results themselves were not surprising: fewer Americans are identifying with religious groups, particularly Christianity […]
Gag Reflex
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but here in the UK it’s not unusual for Christian charities to work within a kind of legal restraining order, which […]
Pain Management
My daughter has lately been coming to terms with the horrors of World War 2. They’ve been studying this period of history in school, and she recently watched a movie […]
Translating Jesus
As a student of ancient texts, I often find myself faced with translational difficulties. There is an important thing one learns early on in working with more than one language: […]
Twisted Leadership
If humility is a desirable quality in leaders, why do so many leadership authors insist on bragging? I went through the contents page of one such book recently and discovered […]
Wondering Fair 