Nanna’s Rainbows in the Tears
There is no guarantee how suffering will shape a soul. As C.S. Lewis, the imaginative author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, once noted, I am not convinced […]
Liberating Freedom
Hey, gotta’ solution: why choose? To anyone surveying our current cultural scene, and its splintered breadth of options political, artistic, religious and social, an easy attitude rises from the pack: […]
“Why can’t people wait for Christmas?”
While shopping today, my three-year-old pointed to a Christmas tree and asked, “why can’t people wait for Christmas”? She didn’t ask it critically but out of curiosity, interrogating the expression […]
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 […]
The Power of a Click
There seem to be moments, every now and then, which grab us. An idea pops up in our mind, and it shines so bright and obvious that we wonder why […]
Extreme Monks and Marathon Mums
Ever feel like your faith is a little lazy? Ever questioned the easy road? I read in The Week recently the obituary of Yusai Sakai, a Japanese Buddhist ‘marathon monk’ […]
Followers
As one of the largest and fastest growing social networks, Twitter has now over 200 million users. The network allows users to communicate messages with a maximum of 140 characters, […]
Can Faith Be Intelligent?
No, it can’t. Actually, it can only be dumb, only naïve, only irrational. If it were rational and intelligent it wouldn’t be faith, after all. By definition. This conclusion is […]
What do Christians believe?
If you type this question into Google, the first hit—“gotquestions.org”—says that the answer is found in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, […]
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 […]
Wondering Fair 