A Hole in the Fence that Became a Door
A year ago I rented a small home with a fence filled with woody knots, some of which were knocked out leaving perfectly oval holes. There was nothing unusual about […]
Tag Archives: doubt
Freud and the Love Delusion
This is one thing that believers and skeptics should be able to agree upon: the story of Jesus is nonsense.
What if I Can’t Believe?
A few years ago, The Washington Post ran an interview with evangelical mega-church pastor Rick Warren where Warren was asked the following question: “How come some people ‘get’ to believe and others do […]
The Texture of Reality
A touch. A fingertip feeling pulsing muscles and skin – the same fingertip that had felt the temperature of a glass of milk, that had flowed through curtains and childrens’ […]
Taking Offense
A major stumbling block for those who reject Christianity is those parts of the Bible which seem to justify actions that we consider to be culturally backward, confusing, and irrelevant […]
Grow Up?
When our kids were in kindergarten, one of the moms from their class approached me on the playground one day for some “religious” advice about how to deal with what […]
A Beautiful Life
What if I’m wrong? Whatever space we happen to inhabit on the worldview continuum, this is a question that is bound to occur to all of us. As human beings […]
Adventures in Doubt
It’s rather fashionable to be agnostic nowadays. The modern project of finding indubitable certitudes on which to base my life is said to have collapsed; Descartes’ adventures in doubt, however, […]
The Crystalline Mountain
I grew up in the land of the shadows, Where nobody ever saw light In the fields or the glades or the meadows, Nor on the highest height But there […]
Doubting Faith
On the other hand it seems that doubt is woven into the very fabric of Christianity, unique to any other worldview; namely that God Himself struggled (at least momentarily) with atheism.
Wondering Fair 