I’ve long been interested in how to think about the ongoing presence of God in our day-to-day lives. I could be oversimplifying, but it seems to me there are two ways of thinking of God. Either He is the aloof God of Deism, the uncaused-cause necessary to explain physical reality, but nothing more, or He […]
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I’m going to say something about Jordan Peterson, who has risen to fame in a way that is quite gratifying to see: through the power of his words and reasoning, without stooping to least-common-denominator, ear-tickling moral exhibitionism. His popularity has grown organically. His willingness to take a stand against postmodernist absurdity has endeared him to a […]
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Love In Imagine a Boy, we considered the love between a father and son, illustrating how it stems at least from a feeling of unity; of oneness; something deeper than mere kinship. What the boy and his father desire is not mere proximity. Not merely comfortable companionship. Not just mutually entertaining company. Rather, they experience […]
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Living Abundantly Much of our self-imposed misery, disappointment, fear, and anxiety results from an inability or unwillingness to think rightly about the future. The Bible speaks to living “abundantly.” Could it be that the ability to think long-term, about this life but also the life to come, is the single best measure of living “abundantly?” […]
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Imagine a boy, 12, on a scout camping trip. He has a tendency to impatience and impetuousness, certainly not uncommon for a boy that age. As a result, he did a poor job setting up his tent, and now he’s cold, and wet. The conditions are miserable, but they’re nothing alongside the overwhelming pathos obsessively […]
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You probably know the phrase “mind over matter.” It’s used in kind of a comic-book sense, oftentimes, but there’s a serious sense, too. It is the idea that Mind precedes matter. That a consciousness (the mind of God) preceded and created matter, and so all of matter is subject to its Maker, the immaterial God who […]
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The Hebrews, Before Christ We think of the principal monotheistic religions as being Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They appeared in that order. Islam is quite recent, compared to the others. It was founded in the 6th century A.D. It is often criticized as being merely derivative (and poorly derivative) of Judaism and Christianity. In any […]
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