The Beautiful Hope Science is wiser than religion: it never tries to do the humanly impossible, like making you love your neighbor like yourself. — Anonymous In Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips and Quotes, 704. Doubleday (June 1968) People of Hope change things. When I think of some of our great leaders of humanity almost all […]
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr’s death will send them straight to heaven. — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1976 Religion has been called the root of […]
I have seen this sign and similar bumper-sticker sayings in the past. I am sure it is unintentional but this group is doing more to promote faith than destroy it. By talking about ‘good’ they are bringing up something that can actually turn people to faith. It is true a person without faith in God […]
Someone recently sent me a story about a lawsuit that recently took place in the States. I must say, sometimes I am happy I live in Canada. Well except for the cold. So sixty years ago the Knights of Columbus put up a memorial for people who died in the war, which included this statue […]
Over the past years I have traveled to areas of the world and seen unimaginable poverty in many places. I have been to countries where lives have been ripped apart by war. I have sat with sick and the dying. At times life seems so unfair. There are those born into much, and those born […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvUFGo-SXBc Promo Video for the new ‘Beautiful Christ’ book. It is subtitled, ‘Why I believe, in an age of skeptics’. There are many objections and questions people have about faith, life, and the Church. This book includes topics like creation, science, evolution, suffering, science, church failures, difficult issues in the Bible, the evils of religion, can […]
I have friends who are Christian, some of other faiths, some who are atheists, and many who find themselves somewhere in between. Over the past years I have spent a significant amount of time reading, watching, and listening to people of every background talk about issues on faith, religion, science, and the Bible. I read […]
For several years I was lead short term mission teams to areas surrounding Monterrey, Mexico. During most of our trips we stopped by a particular orphanage run by several Catholic Nuns. The children living there were kids that society and families either didn’t want, had abandoned, or just could not care for. Some were blind, […]
I have heard, read, and followed this argument on many threads, blogs, videos, and debates. ‘Do we need God for us to be good, to be moral?’ I usually have wanted to yell at someone because it is completely obvious people without faith can have morals, love extravagantly, and strive to make the world a […]
Some may think this would be a strange topic to bring up being as I am a person of Faith, a Christian, a Pastor, and I writer on such issues. However, no matter how odd you think it may be, I have a real appreciation for several friends, authors, and bloggers who see things much […]