Most of you will be relieved to know that I'm done (momentarily) with all this morose navel-gazing, and with insisting that I do not engage in morose navel-gazing. Thank you for indulging. Here is a post about a substant…
I'm pleasantly surprised by how many Potokheads there are out there. I didn't know he had such a following. I decided to read My Name is Asher Lev as part of my Summer Judaica Binge. Next year, I will work as a teaching…
The Case against The Case for Christ Installment the First Last year, my maternal grandma--the one who's currently drinking herself to death, not the one who's full of regret--gave me a copy of Lee Strobel's The Case F…
i stood up and i said, 'yeah!'About six years ago, I had a massive crisis of faith. The details aren't important. But I swore that, once I'd gotten things figured out again, I was going to devote my life to explaining th…
the confidence of knowingA hundred years ago, Zarathustra met an old saint in the woods, and shared a laugh with him, and as he walked away he mused, "This old saint in the forest has not yet heard anything of this, that…
two scientists are racing...The scientific consensus today has been able to tell a very plausible story about how the universe and all of its life-forms came into existence without making any necessary appeal to anything…
what is the light?Things which are not true about religionMyth is one of the founding components of any religion, which is why we are not referring to things which are not true about it as myths. That use of the term ref…
What's that? Why yes, I did post this yesterday. It went up too soon. Needed work. It was arrogant and uncharming. Here it is again.The best thing ever said about studying the Bible might have been said by Karl Childers,…
We watched Ray last night. It reminded me why I generally dislike biopics. People often complain that biopics get the facts wrong and create false impressions of their subjects, but I see the opposite problem. Biopics ge…
