The Intersection of Faith and Culture
By now you are probably aware that the world’s largest homosexuality rehabilitation ministry, Exodus International, has decided to shut down its ministry. As of June 19th, over 10K people on Facebook had shared the statement made by Exodus’s President Alan Chambers, a former homosexual himself. So, why did so many […]
Google knows where we live, Facebook knows whom we like, Amazon knows what we buy, and governments know pretty much everything else. It’s a worrisome prospect to think that we might be living in a world that closely resembles George Orwell’s 1984, but it is even more worrisome to think […]
The problem with most career advice, it seems to me, is twofold: First, we are told that we can do whatever we want, and then when we try to do whatever we want, we are told that we can’t do whatever we want. It is rare to see a week […]
Converging the Week Neuroscience and Religious Belief Neuroscience is all the rage. By claiming to “unlock” the secrets of the human mind – said to be science’s final frontier – neuroscience captures the public’s imagination in everything from disease to economics to art to religion. Sally Satel, co-author of the […]
A former professor of mine once said that if you can’t say everything you want to say about homosexuality, don’t say anything at all. The implication being that if you can’t state your position in full, parts of your position will be taken out of context or misinterpreted entirely. For […]
“SIERRA!” I yelled that name dozens of times last Sunday afternoon; each time my voice trailing off with a measure of embarrassment. You see, Sierra is our new puppy that we lost less than 24hrs after we got her. She was given to us by a friend who knew we […]