by Rich Hansen | May 18, 2021 | Provocative Questions
My wife and I recently spent a day on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay (across the Bay from our home in Annapolis) learning about the life of Harriet Tubman, the most famous “conductor” of the underground railroad that ushered helped hundreds of...
by Rich Hansen | May 6, 2021 | Provocative Questions
In an earlier article in this series, we considered three kinds of doubt: skeptical doubt, willful doubt and honest doubt. Skeptical and willful doubt elevate human reason as the final ARBITER of truth. When we visited Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, we saw in...
by Rich Hansen | Apr 22, 2021 | Provocative Questions
Perhaps we can take this moment to think about the question the murder of George Floyd sparked all across America: Which lives matter? Do black lives matter? The very reason such a movement with this title is needed, however, like the Civil Rights movement before...
by Rich Hansen | Apr 15, 2021 | Provocative Questions
Whether you are a disciple of Jesus Christ or still thinking about it, every person reading this has experienced doubt, either as a major stumbling block in your spiritual journey or only an occasional occurrence. I will suggest three general kinds of doubt. 1)...
by Rich Hansen | Apr 6, 2021 | Provocative Questions
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...
by Rich Hansen | Mar 30, 2021 | Provocative Questions
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...
