Tony Woodlief on his time at St. Fidelis: I prayed in that shadowed chapel until there were no words. I prayed beyond the words, into the silence. The silence is what we fear, the silence when the presence of God can neither be denied nor deflected with vain prayers and empty mumblings. I wept into that [...]
Food for thought from Paul Simon’s Wartime Prayers Times are hard, it’s a hard time But everybody knows all about hard times. The thing is, what are you gonna do? Well, you cry and try to muscle through Try to rearrange your stuff But when the wounds are deep enough, It’s all that we can [...]
Christianity Today: The greatest social need in the world today is not HIV/AIDS outreach. It’s not hunger. It’s not global warming. Not ending poverty or eliminating malaria or tuberculosis. Not clean water. Not racial reconciliation. Not sexual trafficking. Not abortion. And it’s not peace in the Middle East, and not even world peace. [. . [...]
I hope any one who stumbles on this humble web page has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Our family had a nice Christmas at home thanks the the generosity of family and friends. In these difficult economic times it is important to remember what is important. It is traditional around here to [...]
When I was younger I had a tape of Larry Norman’s Only Visiting This Planet. A friend had made a tape of the LP for me. I loved it. Edgy, folky, Christian music. I lost the tape, or wore it out, and never was able to get a hold of a quality copy again. Norman [...]
Heather MacDonald is sick and tired of it. She has decided to speak out and be proud. No longer willing to tolerate the snide remarks and the arrogant condescension, she wants the world to know: she is conservative and atheist and she isn’t afraid to talk about it. There is only one little problem with [...]
Fascinating article over at The New Republic by Thomas Nagel. Nagel’s jumping off point is Richard Dawkins latest book The God Delusion but the essay is really a thought piece about the merits of the argument from design and a naturalistic or Darwinian approach or about life’s big question: “the question of what explains the [...]
Those interested in the intersection of faith and science, might want to check out the Speaking of Faith website and listen in on their recent broadcast on Quarks and Creation. Here is the teaser: Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn [...]
If God’s Debris was an interesting, if not particularly powerful, thought experiment, its sequel can only be described as simplistic and absurd. The book has an incredibly implausible plot, caricatures instead of characters, sophomoric and unfounded philosophy dressed up as profound insight, and a Utopian ending no more plausible than the plot that leads up [...]