by Rich Hansen | Jul 12, 2016 | Worldview
Do you have an extra five minutes today? I’d guess we all do. I encourage you to spend five minutes watching this video “A Conversation with my Black Son.” It features a succession of African-American parents simply looking into a camera describing how they feel...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 30, 2016 | Worldview
How do we Christians know that we are right? I would have to say we cannot know in any ultimate sense until we die. That might sound strange to hear from a preacher! However, only one person has come back from the dead to tell the world the final truth. He did not...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 28, 2016 | Worldview
This is the third of four posts responding to questions I often get asked as a Christian: “Who do you think you are? How do you know you’re right? Can every other religion be wrong?” While I believe the “clash of civilizations” theory is over-wrought, there is...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 23, 2016 | Worldview
Earlier this week, I quoted CS Lewis: “If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all those religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. When I was an atheist I had to persuade myself that most of the human race have always been...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 21, 2016 | Worldview
“Who do you think you are? How do you know you’re right? Can every other religion be wrong?” Many have asked me such questions over the years—in an “in your face” way by irrate skeptics and a more measured but earnest way by church members. With world religions...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 14, 2016 | Worldview
When you are presented with something that you think to be not just accidentally mysterious but necessarily mysterious, there is always the danger that you have fallen into an obscurantist muddle. . . . Far worse is the superficiality that conceives nothing to be...