Allow me to begin by channeling Will Ferrell: “They are the same face! Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” There are about a hundred articles and blog entries from around the Internet concerning clergy and the presidential race that have really raised my eyebrows. And I know what you’re thinking: [...]
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Unreasonable Faith? – Part II (with apologies to Francis Schaeffer)
A Note to the Reader: The following is a philosophical treatise. I do not intend for it to be easily digested. I am far too inept as a writer to make this, in anyway, consumable for the masses. I wish I were. This being said, my aim is to put this in as plain a [...]
Unreasonable Faith?
The thing I miss the most about college, other than Saturdays in the fall, is the intellectual atmosphere. The word university is very easy to break down. Essentially, it means unity in diversity, hence uni-versity. I loved living in a college town filled with people, students, and professors each with their own ideas and eager [...]
Hot, Warm, Nervous Hands (A Meditation in Kansas)
A week ago I threw all of my worldly possessions into the back of an Isuzu Trooper and drove 1500 miles west across the Mississippi River and the Great Plains; through ghost towns and cornfields peppered with small chapels and windmills. I’ve driven this route before. The majority of it follows I-70 clear across Kansas. [...]
John Cusack and Existential Apologetics
Causality has always been a problem for my mind, and probably every other human mind on the planet. We’re never quite sure if one event caused another or vice versa, its the “chicken and egg” dilemma. It’s hard to write off coincidence. The mere fact that things coincide is a little mysterious. [...]
