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September 2017

September 08, 2017

How to Find Genuine Rest in Stormy Times

Floods. Hurricanes. Fires. If we are depending on externals, then these are stressful times.

September 06, 2017

Prayer Works and This Drives People Mad

During tropical storm Harvey, we prayed. Prayer works, but evidently, that statement of fact drives...

September 03, 2017

Houston Flood: Prayer Keeps Working, Pity the Critics

I am tired. You get tired in a flood, because decisions keep coming, even if...

September 02, 2017

Houston Flood: Good to Be Human, but I Am Not the Star of the Film

We tend to valorize our life and magnify our importance. We try to make a story...

September 01, 2017

Miracles in the Houston Flood

There were miracles in the Houston flood. There was also a natural event where things...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Prayers amid Hurricane Harvey

Prayer is the best action one can take in a storm.

August 17, 2017

Finding Demons – Questions from M*

Satan is real, he is active, and he must be opposed. Christianity suggests this is...

August 12, 2017

No: No to Racism, No to the Alt-Right, No to Fascism

Nationalism is not patriotism. "Blood and soil" nationalism has a particularly evil history and in...

August 11, 2017

She is Bigger than the City!

There is a reason the love of money is the root of all kinds of...

August 11, 2017

Virgins Conceiving Everywhere!

We are almost to the Annunciation when an angel came and gave a Jewish woman...

August 10, 2017

Satan is Alive Yet Unwell on Planet Earth!

Devils are dull, deadly dull. Whenever I have run into traces of evil that might...

August 09, 2017

Abounding Miracles: Help My Unbelief

I have known marriages destroyed by unbelief and souls saved by unbelief. The lover that...

August 08, 2017

Miracles: Happening Now

I watched a man run away from church, out of his mind, dirt flying as...

August 07, 2017

The Wolf Who Broke His Teeth on the Fold – Questions from M

Much is lost that should not have been forgotten, but what has been recollected comes...

August 04, 2017

The 100% Solution: Questions from M

An odd thing about folks is that if you put a number on it, they...

August 02, 2017

After the Barton Debacle: Baker and Throckmorton Respond to Each Other

David Barton is a mess. No scholar I know, no matter how conservative, will defend...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

The Bible and Contradictions: Canaanites and Childish Delights

There is value to child-like wonder, but little in childish anger. If you think children...

July 19, 2017

The Last Atheist Will Get Good Care from A Chinese Christian

If things continue as they are, the last Swedish atheist will get good medical care...

July 18, 2017

The “Nones” are Disappearing

Religious people are growing more numerous, Islam especially, and Christianity is growing much less white.

July 16, 2017

Mere Christianity, Mere Orthodoxy — Questions from M

Everyone has a calling. Mine has been to educate Socratically, best I could. My issues...

July 14, 2017

Proving Christianity is False — Questions from M

I once wished Christianity, particularly traditional Christianity, was false. Professionally, I was told that being...

July 13, 2017

Picking out the True God, Which God Is Real — Questions from M

We can find God, know God, and pick God out from all the other godlings.

July 06, 2017

The Problem of Animal Pain — Questions from M

Angels above us and animals beneath us, the planet Earth is full of souls, with...

July 05, 2017

How Love Covers a Multitude of Sins — Questions from M

Plato loved a good time. If he made a mistake in his writing, it was...

July 03, 2017

Don’t Kill the Hitler Youth –Questions from M

Don't kill the Hitler Youth. Kids get raised in bad places, in evil times, and...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

On Croquet and Subjective Morality — Questions from M

Croquet is the new craze at our house. Age and general ineptitude have made it...

June 26, 2017

Beauty and the Existence of God

The existence of beauty suggests that God exists and that He is good. Beauty is...

June 25, 2017

All My Loves at 54 —Questions from M

After fifty-four years of life, I am convinced that beauty makes us wonder and wondering...

June 23, 2017

Don’t Get Cocky, Kid

Star Wars had me at the moment Luke Skywalker blew up some fighters and Han Solo’s...

June 20, 2017

Therefore Let Us Keep the Feast –Questions from M

They tell me I do not wish to know how sausages are made. That is...