One rarely knows what is good for us and what is bad. Therefore if we knowingly put ourselves in the hands of Almighty, whatever happens must be deemed good. And I try literally to follow that precept.
It’s my birthday weekend, and for my birthday, I’d like to give you a gift. After a long delay, I finally sat down and recorded the presentation that I gave at the Peace and Justice Studies Association national conference. People have been asking for it, but life has been busy, and it is just now [...]
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I just had an exchange with an atheist on Twitter who became incredibly condescending when I asserted there were ways of knowing other than empiricism. [EDIT: Said atheist has since deleted the tweet. It's still appearing in my timeline, though, and appears here.] These kind of exchanges are really frustrating, and they’re really much more [...]
This is my last sermon for Preaching class (and possibly my last sermon ever!). The manuscript is mangled, because I wrote enough for 15 minutes without reading the scripture, so I had to do some on-the-fly editing and improvisation. It begins with my translation of Matthew 9:35-10:23 and then launches into a critique of the [...]
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