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God is the Ultimate Travel Agent 1: Paths

Editor’s Note: this is the beginning of a new series I will be focusing on for the next month or so. I’m really excited about the material that will be published in the coming days. Enjoy!
I am really good at going nowhere fast. I’ve perfected the art of spinning my wheels. Did it ever occur […]

If God isn’t real…

If God is a comfort, he’s more luxurious than fine silk or Egyptian cotton.
If God is an invention, he’s more innovative than the wheel or the lightbulb or the iPod.
If God is a phantom, he’s more alluring than the girl of my dreams.
If God is a concept, he’s more fantastic than democracy or capitalism or […]

Chris on the “middle way”

You may not realize it, but I have a dad. Yes, indeed I do, and his name is Christopher (Chris for short). He’s a computer programmer by day and a writer by night. (Imagine that! As they say, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.)
He’s started a very intriguing series on Grace’s blog entitled […]

My theistic response to Martin Freedman

We’re going to take a little detour on the blog today because I’ve been taken to task, and perhaps rightly so, for my sloppy use of language in a post I wrote a while back concerning what I perceived as a paradox in the atheistic worldview. And just to avoid yet another round of confusion, […]

Birthday me

Well, I’m a big whoppin’ 25 years old as of yesterday. For some people, that means they’re just getting started. For me, it’s a little different because I’ve been working for nearly fifteen years already. I was performing music professionally by the age of 11-12, ran my own freelance Web design business since 1997, and […]

Book review: Deadly Viper

A book with a provocative title came across my attention recently, by way of my long-standing interest in co-author Mike Foster. He was one of the founders of XXXChurch.com, a group that brings discussion of the dangers of pornography to the forefront of the church and also reaches out in love to the porn industry, […]

Millennials: good news, bad news

There’s been a lot of hoopla over this CBS News report on the rise of the Millennials in the workforce. I think some of it is just flat out nonsense, written to create controversial talking points and stir up media hype, but some of it warrants closer attention.
I’m 24, going on 25 next month, so […]

Moral for a reason

When atheists (materialists) object to the theistic view of morality, saying that they can behave morally without needing a “god” or a “holy book” to tell them so, they miss the entire point of the debate. The question isn’t whether people can or do behave in moral ways (at least in terms of our collective […]

Set yourself up for failure

This may sound crazy, but if you really want to be a successful leader, you need to set yourself up for failure. What??? Shouldn’t that be: set yourself up for success?
No, because the fact is that there is no single leader ever who has not failed at one time or another. We all fail, because […]

True eternal sunshine

In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the female lead character, Clementine (played expertly by Kate Winslet), makes the following key statement during the course of the narrative:
“I’m just a ****ed up girl who’s looking for my own peace of mind.”
I think that is the heart’s cry of the postmodern world. We’re fast […]