Last week I quoted part of what I said in Chapter 6 of my first book, Beyond Blind Faith, entitled “Three Lies People Tell About God” (copyright 2017, 2019), regarding the lie that “God wants to make you wealthy.” Here is part two: This notion that God wants Christians to Read more…
In these days when so many preachers are building huge followings by telling their congregations that God wants them to be rich, I would like to revisit what I said in Chapter 6 of my first book, Beyond Blind Faith, entitled “Three Lies People Tell About God” (copyright 2017, 2019). Read more…
Ice in the Arctic is receding by about ten percent every ten years due to climate change as well as the fact that the Arctic is warming faster than the Earth as a whole. That spells disaster for polar bears, which live exclusively in the Arctic and are now considered Read more…
It’s a truism that none of us always does the right thing, and we often do the wrong thing, as illustrated by such well known expressions as “We all make mistakes,” “Nobody’s perfect,” and “To err is human, to forgive divine.” The apostle Paul said essentially the same thing in Read more…
About sixteen months ago I wrote about a movement in the United States which calls itself Christian nationalism. I defined Christian nationalism as “the belief that the United States is, and should be, a Christian nation, and that our laws should reflect and enforce Christian values.” We have seen this Read more…