I was thinking to myself this morning about how I often get attached to things. At times it's been my car, my computer, even my friends and my way of life. I was wondering if it was bad to be attached like that. At the time I decided that it wasn't, as long as you don't get obsessed. Because it would be ridiculous, after all, to expect everyone who ( Read more... )

Last year I read a short book by Scott Adams (the creator of the Dilbert comic strip) called God's Debris*. It postulates that the universe as we see it is, well, God's debris. Since God is all-knowing and all-powerful, can he destroy himself? In the book, Adams leads the reader through a thought experiment: what if God got bored with being so ( Read more... )

A while ago I read an article titled "All About Eve." It's much too insightful and artistic of an article for me to adequately summarize here, but someone brought up a very interesting point in the comment thread that caught my attention. It's a thought that's lingered in my mind for two months now ( Read more... )

It's 6:00am and you're being roused from a light, fitful sleep by the insistent shaking of your best friend. You've been sleeping on a thin mat set on the damp floor of the cellar of a church you've never been in before now. You thank God that you made it through another night without being found and abducted by the brutal and violent rebel army. ( Read more... )

The television show “LOST” begins as many stories do, with a cast of characters who have been presented with a difficult situation. As you see how the characters interact with one another; how they deal with the situation they’ve been given you develop opinions about them. Some people handle the stress well, working and encouraging others, while ( Read more... )

In Jesus' time, the "religious right" was a group known as "Pharisees." They were the priests, the scholars, the leaders, the purveyors of truth, the highest class of God's chosen religion. They had dedicated their lives, a not insignificant amount of their money, and their minds to an Almighty-approved religion thousands of years old. They were ( Read more... )

About a month ago, a study reported that over 90% of Americans have premarital sex before the time they're 44. Certainly a higher number than I would have expected, but not much higher. It's interesting then, how little we talk about sex. In most religious discussions about relationships and love the idea that sex outside of marriage is wrong is a ( Read more... )

      6010 years ago, in 4004 BC, the universe was created. Six days later, the first human was created. His name was Adam. A couple days after that, he underwent the first surgery, when God took one of his ribs and made a woman out of it ( Read more... )

This morning I saw the most beautiful sunrise in my entire life ( Read more... )

    The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image is a picture taken by the Hubble space telescope of the farthest visible reaches of the universe. The telescope was aimed at what looks like a completely empty patch of sky and a picture with an 11-day exposure was taken. The relative size of that patch of sky, from Earth, would be about 1/10 the width of the ( Read more... )