Faith & Reason

Sometimes the smartest people can be wrong. Take J. Vernon McGee. Widely considered a biblical authority, he made an amazing statement in his “Through the Bible” series. He mentioned Joshua 1:2, where God told Joshua to cross the Jordan River. McGee then said it when he visited that land himself, he also crossed the Jordan. [...]

To paraphrase Hayek: “The curious task of Christian humility is to demonstrate to people how little they really know about what the imagine they can design.” Check out what Mark Skousen had to say about how a society really survives: Jobs’s Job by Mark Skousen, Investment U Contributing Editor Friday, December 30, 2011 “There is [...]

The Catholic forums have some fascinating, in-depth discussions. One in particular caught my eye… it was a debate on whether or not Christians should observe the ancient Hebrew holidays. After all, Christians and Hebrews share a common heritage. But the answer came back that Paul emphasized our new traditions as Christians. We have our own [...]

Positive thinking alone gives you blind spots. Simple, unbiased acceptance of life comes first. If you whitewash over the negatives, you’ll never effectively deal with them. As cool as positive thinking is, it has it’s place. It can motivate you to change what you can and need to change… but first you need “reality thinking” [...]

Here’s an excerpt of an article I found at: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45561 There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.
 
It is 3,000 years old.
 And it is known as the Ten Commandments.
 
 Properly understood and applied, the Ten Commandments are really all humanity needs. While [...]

Love’s not a boomerang we throw out, and get back. Too many people give love, hoping to get some sort of return on investment. Like “Karma.” Or, “…in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” How about giving love, simply because there is such a dearth of it in [...]

I’m the first to admit — I have to often drag myself to my daily bible reading. Sometimes kicking and screaming. When it gets to who begat whom, it’s all I can do to keep my lids propped open. Same thing with Exodus. My eyes rapidly glaze over, when it gets to all the details [...]

From Erick Erickson: Some hear the story of the Christ and hear myth. Others hear it and believe. Honestly, while it matters, for our context here it does not matter. It just is. Whether you believe it or not, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most profound event in human history. Empires [...]

Nearly everyone, religious or not, is somewhat familiar with the first chapter of Genesis. It is here where God creates the material universe. I say material, because it is the totality of that which exists that we can empirically observe, and have evidence that it exists. And that it was made out of nothing. The [...]

My wife just met an interesting person… a Messianic Jew. Now, I do not pretend to understand all of what that entails. There are aspects of Judaism more esoteric and arcane than the Catholic church… However, he brought up something that has crossed my mind before as an idle curiosity… Why don’t Christians observe the [...]