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February 2022

February 02, 2022

An Insight Into Unhappiness – Part I

Several years ago I had lunch with a psychiatrist and we spent some time talking...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

The Value of Friendship

After writing my recent blog called “The Loneliness Epidemic ” a friend sent me a sketch...

January 23, 2022

The Lens Through Which We See

I recently read of an interesting encounter that author Paul David Tripp had with a 28-year-old man...

January 20, 2022

What Am I Living For?

This is a story about a man named Robert who lives in San Francisco and...

January 17, 2022

The Loneliness Epidemic

Behavioral scientist Susan Mettes has written an interesting book titled, The Loneliness Epidemic. The subtitle is, Why So...

January 08, 2022

I Need More Proof To Believe – Part 2

I remember reading a very interesting story by August Turak, describing a spiritual retreat he attended...

January 05, 2022

I Need More Proof to Believe – Part 1

Do you need more proof in order to believe in the claims of Christ? A...

December 2021

December 22, 2021

God and Science – Part 3

This will be the final blog post on God and Science; at least for the...

December 20, 2021

God and Science – Part 2

One of the great questions that has befuddled scientists over the years is “How did...

November 2021

November 05, 2021

Why Is God Not More Visible?

I think sometimes we wonder why God does not reveal Himself to us in a...

October 2021

October 31, 2021

Can We Be Moral Without God?

This is a follow-up to last week’s blog Why Nations Die. Arnold Toynbee concluded in...

October 23, 2021

Evil and the Existence of God

A few years ago, CNN published an article entitled, Why I Raise My Children without...

October 11, 2021

God and the Presence of Evil

One of the greatest conundrums that religious skeptics have to deal with is how to...

October 06, 2021

A Different Perspective on Pain and Suffering

The Center recently received a letter from David Freeman, a Boston-based financial services professional. In...

October 04, 2021

The One Falsifiable Religion

In my latest book, Reflections on the Existence of God, I have attempted to demonstrate how atheism...

September 2021

September 19, 2021

How Albert Camus Changed His Mind

One of my favorite authors is philosopher Dallas Willard. He once said that, “meaning is...

September 16, 2021

A Reason Not To Believe

Back in 2004, I entered an essay into the John Templeton Foundation Power of Purpose...

September 01, 2021

Theism’s Strongest Argument

In May of 2018 I wrote a blog on the fine tuning of the universe....

August 2021

August 28, 2021

Who Determines What is Evil?

When I was a young boy, I remember seeing a movie on television about a...

August 26, 2021

The Rise of Atheism in America

A number of years ago, Encyclopedia Britannica published a 55-volume series entitled The Great Books...

August 18, 2021

The Question of Beauty

I remember a number of years ago driving down a highway at the end of...

August 15, 2021

The Mystery of the Human Eye

William Paley was an English philosopher who lived in the late 1700s and died in...

August 12, 2021

The Mystery of Math

Bob Corker served as a United States Senator from 2007 to 2016, after which he...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Answering Life’s Big Questions

John O’Neil has served as president of the California School of Professional Psychology and consults with...

June 2021

June 04, 2021

Why Do We Value Human Life?

My wife and I were recently talking about the pandemic and why it has been...