When it comes to faith, I believe one of the most important things a person can do is find it for themselves. Not inherit it. Not adopt it because it’s familiar. But genuinely wrestle with it, develop it, and ultimately build it on a ground that is solid enough to stand on when the storms…
The topic of suffering has been a difficult idea to reconcile with a loving God. The question, why do bad things happen to good people, has been at the forefront of this. The book of Job tries to answer this question, while also examining various popular beliefs at that time. Yet, unlike what many would…
I wrote a little while back on Facebook about how the older I get, the more faith becomes important for me. Some really great questions were brought up in the comments. Those questions were also answered, but nonetheless, they have been on my mind ever since. A few years ago, I wrote an article titled,…
Every few years, a new Pew study is done, and the media and others use it to claim that the belief in God is in decline. But each time, the results are generally quite misrepresented and show a misunderstanding of religion in general. So let’s just first start with the numbers. In the last decade,…
“Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,” James 1:19. It’s advice that greatly changed my life nearly a decade and a half ago. While I had grown up in an evangelical Christian household, as a teen I rebelled. I first turned to other religions, but eventually I would give up…
Ever sense Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code, there has been a mass of misinformation about Constantine, and the Council of Nicaea. This information was already circulating before Brown’s book, but he helped take this conspiracy theory and propel it into the mainstream. Brown isn’t a historian, but the problem is that he made…
Every once in awhile I will see a meme pop up that deals with religion. For a long time, I’d think about them and then my wife would get to hear about all that was wrong with the meme, but recently I started saving the actual meme. I wasn’t sure what I was going to…
Christian faith does not have to be a belief in the unbelievable. Yet, over the last few decades, this is the way many have begun to speak about Christianity. That the Christian faith requires one to blindly accept it, whether or not the ideas are truly believable. For many within the faith, this wouldn’t be…
Every few years, headlines exclaim that the belief in God is on the decline in the United States. The claims often stem from polls conducted by the Pew Research Center, which for some time have shown a gradual increase in those who are classified as “nones,” those who have no religious affiliation. At the same…
What do you do when your minister makes the bold claim that Jesus was definitely not born of a virgin? That when Matthew states Mary was a virgin, the word Matthew used didn’t actually mean virgin. Or that virgin births were a common trope, that even the Emperor was said to be born of a…
