Can I Pray for my Country at the World Cup?
The answer to this question I received long ago. I was 14 back then, during the 1998 World Cup in France. We were watching a tense game at a summer […]
Tag Archives: prayer
Hearing the Silence
Despite all our highly rational arguments for or against God’s existence, a lot of the time, the issues are far simpler – more an experience than a theory. That experience […]
The Prayer You Thought You Didn’t Have
There is a religious mindset which insists that prayers must be said in a particular way, for instance hands together, eyes closed, kneeling, standing, bowing…or perhaps all of the above […]
Why Jesus Won’t Heal ‘Disabilities’
“Dude, you severed my finger.” Sadly it was true. Anthony and I were moving heavy logs, in preparation for a youth camp—kumbuyah round the camp-fire. “1-2-and … STOP!”—and like that […]
“For thine is the story…”
My nearly three-year old daughter has a beautifully illustrated version of the Lord’s Prayer that we read almost every night. She piously folds her little hands and says the words […]
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 […]
My Hall of Shame
I hate to face my Hall of Shame. That’s how I call, or at last how I feel about, my list of answered emails, Facebook comments and messages, SMS, unpaid […]
If God Does Not Exist
I live in Spain, where one in every three people between 18 and 29 years old don’t believe in the existence of God. Many other countries share a similar statistic. […]
Intellectual Adoration
Victorian Britain—especially from 1859-1901—it is often described in terms of a “crisis of doubt.” Today we assume that this crisis in Christian thinking developed because of Darwin but, as Owen […]
Nascar Prayer
On July 23 this year in Nashville, Tennessee, pastor Joe Nelms gave a prayer for a Nascar race. Since then, that prayer has been watched on Youtube over 2 million […]
Wondering Fair 