… Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. –Matthew 25:40 It’s unusual for me to include a Bible quote in a post. I haven’t done it more than a short handful of times in the whole history of this blog. I’m no Bible […]
Every argument starts with an assumption. Usually more than one. If I assume the Bible is the literal Word of God and you assume it’s a dangerous collection of fairy tales, we’re going to have a hard time agreeing on anything that touches my religion–which is pretty much everything. If I assume Ted Cruz is […]
We can spend our time arguing about where the world came from. We can argue the difference between the Big Bang and Let there be light, each of us ridiculing the other’s position and logic. We can let the debate descend into name-calling, abandon all respect for each other. We can entrench in our positions, […]
Many of us believe in a God so loving that He will forgive anything we do, anything we say, if we only ask it and believe in Him. Even more, we believe our sin goes so deep in our bones that if we tried to earn His forgiveness, if we tried to deserve His mercy, […]
Faith is not a competition. But we love to make it one. In our competitive society, we find ways to compare our faith with that of others, ways to make sure we are better at faith than they are. We go to church more often than they do; we tithe, and they give less than […]