On Sunday evening, May 20, 2012, I went to bed at the normal hour. It had been a good sabbath. Vanessa was a few days past her due date, but this had given us time to take our membership vows at the church we had been attending since we moved to Marietta a few months before. […]
Continue reading →Once, when I was three or four, I came into the kitchen while my mother was washing dishes to tell her about my new toy car—how the steering wheel actually turned the front wheels, how the doors and even the hood and trunk opened. It was made of metal, with good heft. It was a […]
Continue reading →The greatest gift my father ever gave me freed me from years and years of bitterness, resentment, and addiction to failure.
Continue reading →Us to God: “It would bring me joy to see you suffer as I have suffered.”
God to Us: “I will gladly bear your suffering to bring you joy.”
An early adoption of Christian rationalism had me operating as a psychopath. Does the Bible give primacy to reason? Should the church?
Continue reading →CLAYTON, OHIO—James Robbins, the probably apostate pastor of Clayton First Methodist Church, has refused on multiple occasions to evidence his love for Jesus by interacting with inspirational memes on Facebook. According to Suzanne Rigsby, one of the members of First Methodist, she knew the soon-to-be-damned Robbins was “skating on thin ice with the Lord” when […]
Continue reading →Memorizing Bible verses with my kids is one of the most frustrating and rewarding things I do. One of my kids particularly tests and teaches me.
Continue reading →Last night, I was hanging out in southwest Atlanta with my friend Ben Hodges, who is actually the whitest kid I know. For example, I went over to his house so we could make a night of it going over my proposed edits for a chapter of his memoirs. I showed up around nine o’clock […]
Continue reading →Whether it’s framed by heated personal anecdotes or cool-headed syllogisms, the problem of evil has always posed the thorniest challenge to belief in the Christian God. It runs something like this: The Bible says God is omnipotent, omniscient, and good. Yet there is evil in the world. So the Bible must be wrong about God: […]
Continue reading →In August of 1867, Fyodor Dostoevsky made a special stop with his wife Anna Grigorievna to see a painting. We know this from an entry she made in her diary: On the way to Geneva, we stopped for a day in Basel, with the purpose of seeing a painting in the museum there that my […]
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