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Pursuing Questions. Exploring Paradox.
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Can Human Reason Trust Resurrection Faith?
Christians who celebrated Jesus’ resurrection from the dead last Sunday encountered one of the classic tensions in Christian experience: the tension between faith and reason. Over the next weeks of this Easter season (Easter until Pentecost) I want to focusing on...
Jesus’ Resurrection–The Crucial 4%
After a lifetime studying military history, Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Reagan administration, concluded that in the fog of war, victorious generals misperceive what is actually happening 95% of the time. Defeated generals, on...
How Do You Reconcile God’s Love and God’s Justice?
In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy and Susan are told about Aslan, the great Lion who is ruler of Narnia (and Lewis’s figure for Jesus Chris). “Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy. “Safe?” said Mr. Beaver. “Who said anything about safe? ’Course he...
Witnessing: Trying Too Hard or Not Hard Enough?
The word “witnessing” quickly divides many Christians. Some (often more on the left) are wary, perhaps even disdainful of the whole idea. “Witnessing” conjures images of obnoxious salesmen for God. With only these negative images of personal evangelism, this group...
My Content (What I Write About)
My goal is helping you pursue powerful questions that will lead you into new discoveries—about yourself, the world around you and, especially, God.
Where others give answers that side-step nuance or mystery, I ask questions.
Questions open us up to new truth in ways that easy answers do not. I believe this is particularly true for spiritual issues, where the Christian faith journey has often been described as “faith seeking understanding.” My hope is pursue this journey in ways that challenge our minds and deepen our faith.
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity…..but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
Do these words of Oliver Wendell Holmes resonate with you?
- I write for people weary of simplistic answers. By exploring complex issues, my hope is to emerge on the “other side” into a more genuine and truthful simplicity.
- I write for thinkers who believe reality is never captured in a Twitter message, and who need practical ways to keep believing in a “post truth” society.
- I write for explorers who believe the X Files’ promise: “The truth IS out there.” My offer is to journey alongside together seeking the truth (and Truth) that inevitably challenges and expands our current worldviews.
My Featured Publication
Paradox Lost: Rediscovering the Mystery of God
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