The ravaging egocentricity of the human species would have been unlikely without the development of another human singularity, the notion of God. That, in itself, presents an ontological impossibility. As a rule, big things don’t fit into little things. Continue reading
If we poor fallible human beings are capable of doing anything Christlike, it is feeding the hungry, tending the sick, comforting the lonely. Yet Trump recently cut federal funding for the country’s charitable programs. They are wasteful, he told us. They do not fulfill his policies, which alone express the will of the American people. That came as a surprise to the American people. Continue reading
The king didn’t like it. The queen didn’t like it. Their pawns didn’t like it. Being sermonized to like that. Continue reading
The most seductive women on Earth are not in Argentina or Sweden or Eden or Hollywood. God put them all in just one country and charged His devoted servants there to guard them well. Continue reading
June 19, 2024, will go down in history as a red-letter day for the state of Louisiana, the United States of America, and perhaps planet Earth. On that day Governor Landry signed a law requiring The Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom in the state. Just as true religion ought to do, it turned up the heat for instructors all over Louisiana. Continue reading
Having a child is arguably the single most momentous event a woman can experience — whether good or bad. It triggers a transformation that consumes everything she has to offer physically, mentally, emotionally, often financially. And, as we all know, the event does not end, but only begins with the birth of the child. Some women are not ready for that. Continue reading
The creatures of the hadal deep do not know they are at the bottom of the ocean and certainly do not know they are at the bottom of the food chain. Innocent of God’s grace, they have also been spared the agony of having to choose between their existential attachments and salvation. God’s masterpiece, bred of Adam and Eve, was not so spared, whence the source of that creature’s anguish. Continue reading
After my father’s memorial service, a cousin whispered to me that he had hoped I might say a word or two. My answer at the time was that my feelings were too much in turmoil to be able to say anything coherent about my father. Only now, ten months after my father’s death, do I know what I would have liked to have said then, and am able to say now. Continue reading
The debate about the existence of God rages on because it has never been anything but inconclusive. And so it is doomed to remain. Contemplating the existence of God requires us to use cognitive equipment we simply do not have. Continue reading