Are we inherently good or evil? Generally, most arguments seem to fall into one of two theological camps.
On the one hand there is the belief that man’s nature was originally good but that due to disobedience this nature changed to one of being inclined towards evil. This disobedience had the side effect of bringing ‘sin’ [...]

I had a strange dream last night. It was about a group of people in the future who had developed a faith (in some sort of God?) and had become very enthusiastic about it. This entailed the wearing of certain weird and tacky (to me) pieces of clothing to identify themselves as belonging to this [...]

Wow…now for a completely different post. About 2 years ago, I saw an extremely powerful video clip that really shook me up inside. Some of you remember this video clip, it’s taken me years to find it so I’ve been sharing it with everybody I get the chance to. I will post 2 versions of [...]

As a huge football fanatic, I must say that I am HIGHLY anticipating this season (okay yes, I know it’s already here). I’m especially excited to see the Ravens in action. The only other season where we’ve started 2-0 was our Super Bowl season, so I am beyond stoked. What looked great to me was [...]

One grey and windy day at the beach I was contemplating Genesis, particularly how it relates to the Resurrection. Actually it wasn’t the weather that had me thinking about the Bible, it was yesterday’s bikinis.
Deep into my middle years I have grudgingly come to accept the fact that aging will not (I hope!) be [...]

Henri Nouwen says that an important element lacking in most Christian prayer is something that the Jews have understood for centuries but the Church seems to have forgotten. This is the pardonable allowance to question God’s authority. Rather than merely submitting at all times with a humble “Your will be done” we should feel comfortable [...]

“What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I just watched a wonderful movie, “The End of the Spear” about the five missionaries who were tragically massacred by Amazon aborigines in 1956 (a story made famous by Elizabeth Elliot’s book “Through the Gates of Splendor”) and how their families carried on their work, eventually converting [...]

Quite often I see people dismiss Revelation as a not so important or not too relevant book. Why is that? Here’s some of the reasons I’ve heard.

It’s written in language that is strange, symbolic and cryptic
Why dwell on the end times? We need to live the Kingdom now.
It’s not relevant to my life now.
There are [...]

I just finished reading Brian McLaren’s “New Kind of Christian” trilogy and thought that it was excellent. I highly recommend these books to everyone, including those folks who are skeptical of the emergent church.
The last book in his series, “The Last Word and the Word after That” was probably his most controversial as it dealt [...]

A newbie to the site (yeah!!) posted a comment to another article. The comment didn’t really relate to the related article (I don’t think…) but I thought it was a great launching point. I have copied his comments here so as to keep the other article’s comments on topic.
“Okay, then chew on this:
The following is [...]