Galileo’s Quest For a Rational Faith

This was a school paper from my Western Civ class in the fall of 2004″…the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their...

Election Year Sanity: Guidelines For Engagement

‭‭ It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes-Psalm 118:9 ESV‬ The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world- Reinhold Niebuhr ¹ My relationship with partisan politics has a complex history. At different times in my life, I...

Troubling Bible Passages 3: The Death Penalty

Any believer attempting to share his or her faith will eventually be confronted with the cliched “gotcha” verses often cited by unbelievers. Often, they will bring up ritual purity laws from the Old Testament which may indeed appear strange to modern...

Troubling Bible Passages 2: Genocide

“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” (Genesis 18:23-25) In Part One of this series on Troubling Bible Passages, we looked at the Bible’s teaching about Slavery and the common misconceptions about it. For Part Two, we will ponder the...