Isaiah 7:14 and the Syro-Ephraimite Crisis…and What That Means for Jesus (Part 2)
One of the disadvantages of growing up in church, particularly Evangelical churches, is that from the time you step foot in Sunday School classrooms, you are in...
Category: Spirituality
Isaiah 7:14: Misconceptions and False Assumptions…and What that Means for Jesus (Part 1)
It’s Christmas, and if you have grown up in church (and probably even if you haven’t), no doubt you are familiar with Isaiah 7:14: “Therefore the Lord himself w...
What do Fruit Flies Have to do with Eternity? (Still more celebratory excerpts regarding evolution and the Christian Faith)
Fruit Flies, Transformation, and Eternity Since I’m on the topic of fruit flies, let me make another point. Due to the short life span of fruit flies, scientist...
Reflections on Divorce…From Bright Avenue: The Songs of Bob Bennett
Welcome to the second year of resurrecting orthodoxy. One of the things I read last year as I was getting ready to launch this blog, was the bit of advice that ...
Lightning Flashes, and Encounters With the Divine…
I know I am in the middle of writing my review of God’s Not Dead 2, but a very unusual thing just happened to me this afternoon that I thought worthy enough to ...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Scientific Spirituality and a Hopeless Contradiction (Part 9)
Sam Harris’ final chapter in The End of Faith is entitled, “Experiments in Consciousness.” In light of the basic premise of his book (i.e. faith is destructive ...
The Crash: Part 2 (How the Fallout Changed the Course of my Life)
In my last post, I told about the life-changing car wreck I was in as a teenager on December 22, 1985. I said that it was that car wreck that changed my life, b...
The Crash: Part 1 (A Sort of Christmas Story From My Youth)
Thirty years ago, almost to this day, I was involved in a car crash that changed the course of my life. I was a 16-year-old junior in high school who had his dr...
Bob Bennett’s “Heart of the Matter”: If this doesn’t sum up life, I don’t know what does
In this post, I share yet another song from my childhood that was pivotal in the formation of my very worldview: Bob Bennett’s “Heart of the Matter....
Reflections of Songs that Impacted my Life: “Beautiful One” by Daniel Amos
As I continue going through the Christian music from the 1980’s that I listened to growing up, I feel compelled to share a song from the group Daniel Amos, a Ch...