The next chapter in Bishop Kallistos Ware’s classic, The Orthodox Way, is entitled, “God as Creator.” There is so much packed into this chapter, that it will take two posts to actually unpack it. For about three years, I wrote quite a lot about the creation/evolution debate in general, and specifically about Ken Ham and…
I don’t care what you say, but for most people—even most Christians—the concept of the Trinity is one of those things that receives quizzical looks and isn’t really understood. I remember in high school Bible class occasionally talking about it as if it were some kind of algebraic puzzle: How is it possible to have…
In Bishop Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, the first chapter is entitled, “God as Mystery.” In Part 2a, I looked at the first half of the chapter. Here in 2b, I will proceed to look at the second half. In the second half of the chapter, “God as Mystery,” Ware builds off the idea…
A few days ago, someone in one of the Facebook Creation/Evolution groups I follow posted a link to an hour-long video entitled, “Genesis Impact,” and commented that it looked like something from Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. His comment basically was, “Is it even worth it bother watch it?” Well, I figured that I…
In Bishop Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, the first chapter is entitled, “God as Mystery.” It is an apt title because it gets to, what I feel, is a fundamental difference in emphasis between Orthodox Christianity and the Evangelical Christianity in which I grew up. At the risk of being too over-simplistic, much of…
Over the next month or two, I have decided to do a series of book analyses on a number of books that have had a tremendous impact on my spiritual journey. For those who might not know, my spiritual journey (in very broad brushstrokes) has looked like this: I grew up in Wheaton, Illinois (i.e….
I admit that this is a rather different kind of post. In my Wisdom Literature class, we are currently going over The Song of Solomon, a book that, let’s face it, most people don’t read. It’s this odd love poem that seems just a bit too weird and erotic for most tastes. Nevertheless, it is…
Now that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, it has been interesting to watch the reactions across the board. I’ve seen a lot of expressed hopes by everyone across the board that Biden can help end the divisiveness and bring back civility to the national discourse. I’ve seen people…
Here we are, a day before the 2020 presidential election, and I want to give a few final thoughts to wrap up my two previous posts. Call it a “Christian response to our politics,” if you will. In particular, this post really is addressed to Christians more than anyone else. I want to first say…
In my previous post, I gave a brief overview regarding how I felt about Donald Trump in 2016, how I expected him to crash and burn as president, how I assumed I would be voting for a Democrat in 2020 (as long as they acted like adults), and how I was shockingly and pleasantly surprised…