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Opening Statement I will start with a bold statement: I am convinced that most Christians care more about their traditions and culture than they do about God or Jesus as the messiah. In the following articles, I will lay out the evidence for this claim and offer a way forward in this age, when the…
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These two things are at the forefront of my thoughts recently, although they are only loosely interrelated. I will start with the conversation with the postmodernist, as that will be easier. Postmodernism is the most popular way of thinking in the world in 2026. It has a long history, which I’ve discussed many times on…
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I never know why people are coming here, but I can see what they are reading. I’ve had a surge of hundreds of new readers in the past few days, and they seem to be drawn to my writing about my myeloma journey. I don’t like writing new things about my cancer because I am…
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I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I wasn’t the most curious. I have an insatiable appetite to know the why of things. For the thirty-seven years I spent as an evangelical, I had to stifle that curiosity because in that and most religious worlds, conformity…
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I have written about the problems of religious fatalism many times over the years. One key problem I’ve written about is providence in the face of suffering. Likely the number one reason that people leave their religious upbringing is the absurdity that they must face in the midst of suffering. God loves me, God exhibits…
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Is God Really Binary? If you missed it, Texas Senate candidate James Talarico said in 2021 that “God is nonbinary.” This has been in the headlines over the past two weeks, with evangelical politicians such as Ted Cruz and the Republican Party in general using this statement to prove that Talarico is a radical and…
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I learned this term from David Howard, who goes by the moniker The Naked Pastor and creates cartoons to deconstruct unhealthy Christian ideas. Below is his cartoon. His building shape always represents the church. A myth in practical Christian living is that everything is bliss. The high school teacher who recruited me to a discipleship…
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I’m at a crossroads. Now that I’m taking a break from my heavy writing, and I’ve noticed that half of my thousand readers per week are reading my cancer stuff and not so much my philosophical ramblings, I need to speak about cancer for at least a moment. I don’t write a lot about my…
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On this episode I work on the western wall, soffit work and laying stone. Enjoy.
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For three months, I’ve been defending human reason in an age of irrationality. In fact, on a casual level, I have been defending human reason for thirty years. So, someone might think I have taken human reason too far, as if it were perfect. Therefore, it is time for me to set the limits of…
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