A friend on Facebook wrote a few months ago, “Faith is not the opposite of Doubt. Hope is.” I have pretty strong opinions about the way I see Christians reacting to doubt. Generally, I think we suck at it. Certainty lures us with a promise of safety and emotional stability. […]
Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World N. D. Wilson Thomas Nelson, 2009 Amazon.com (affiliate) Sometimes books, like the authors who write them, prove to be such a tangled mixture of wrong and right, beauty and deformity that I don’t know how to handle them. ND Wilson’s […]
I typed this out as part of a response to a discussion on FB, and since it’s useful and pretty succinct, I’m posting it here for future reference. Feel free to discuss, but I’m not trying to start anything… lol ________ I think a biblical definition of evil must include […]
[Spoilers ahead!!] I’m still scratching my head about the hullabaloo. To hear people talk, you’d think The Shack was either the Holy Spirit incarnate or Satan Himself reduced to print form and corrupting the minds of American Christians one reader at a time. I couldn’t escape the Shack discussions … dear friends recommended it […]
To continue a point I was working on a few days ago: 1. God is good. 2. God is all-powerful 3. Evil exists. Every religion must wrestle with “the problem of evil.:” Trying to affirm more than two of these truths at any one time shoves a person into logical […]
