Monthly Archives: October 2017
I listen to a lot of Christian radio and I am struck by how much gun rights and vitamins have become associated with our faith. Scattered amongst the sermons and talk shows are programs promoting health supplements and second amendment rights. While both of these issues are important, they do not define Christianity. Sadly, the secular world lumps all these things together and unfairly creates a Christian stereotype that doesn’t match the Jesus found in Scripture. Our faith should not be defined by the number of firearms in our gun…..
You are alive! The very fact that you are reading this blog means you are a living, breathing human being. I think we all too often view our existence as life + X and miss the quite astonishing fact that before all of our cultural accessorizing, we are alive. We get so distracted acquiring things that we think will make us happy that we fail…..
Chronological snobbery is defined as, “an argument that the thinking, art, or science of an earlier time is inherently inferior to that of the present, simply by virtue of its temporal priority.”(1) I would argue that this phrase also applies to our use of ancient thinking as a plumb line for modern thought. We love to make our cases by quoting Einstein,…..
