I think American views of Christianity are at a fork in the road. Some are lamenting while others rejoice that the criticisms of religion are finally mainstream. Religion has been displaced from the public sphere for nearly a generation now...
I will openly state that I absolutely believe there is a right and a wrong way of speaking about the Divine/God/Faith/Spirituality/etc. (more…)
Ferdinand de Saussure was a structuralist philosopher, a man who was very much concerned with how the human brain organizes information and assimilates a worldview. From him, we gained the notion that the human brain organizes new information in binaries,...
Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote one of my absolute favorite books. It was simply titled The Prophets, and you guessed it, it was a book on the Hebrew prophets. Originally, it was the content of his PhD dissertation, but after some admonition...
Yes. The answer is yes. Jesus was at the same time, both liberal and conservative. John 8 is one of my favorite passages of Scripture. It is a snapshot of Jesus that does not exist in the other three Gospels,...
I guess that is a great first question to answer. Quite simply, I felt like I have something to offer. There came a point in my life, roughly six months ago when I realized that I was waiting. I was...
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