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Pursuing Questions. Exploring Paradox.
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Faith: My Decision or God’s Decision?
Perhaps you’ve heard this story before. A captain looked out from his bridge into a dark, stormy night and saw a faint light on the horizon coming straight at him. He immediately sent a message: “Alter your course 10 degrees south.” Promptly, the reply came back:...
Attack or Defend? Jesus Offers a Third Way
These weeks during the season of Lent are traditionally times for serious self-examination, something I don't do often enough. I decided to offer some weekly reflections on issues we may not examine as deeply as we should. Last week I addressed the idea of God's role...
Lenten Reflection #1: God’s Chosen Nation?
The stories we repeatedly hear from others, tell each other, and tell ourselves are what really shape our lives. Someone recently told me he had always unquestioningly assumed America is a Christian nation (he’d heard it all his life). He recently read The Warmth of...
Yes, It’s Lent Again
In March 2011 a tsunami with towering 30-foot-high waves battered the coast of Japan and caused the meltdown of a nuclear reactor. More than 19,000 people died on that day —six times more people than died in the terrorist attacks on the United Stated on 9/11. In...
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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