Paradox and the Christian

“The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. | Deuteronomy 29.29 On Sunday, we talked about the limits of knowledge; the shortcomings of believing...

An honest conversation about abortion

I actually had that title written across the top of my page when someone sent me an article with a similar title that actually does an amazing job of helping us to think through what it means to care for the born and unborn alike. And since I have been told more than...

What is choice?

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”  | Robert Frost Like life, CHOICE is a word that can mean very different things; a word whose definition is important to the conversation...

What is life?

Science speaks properly a language of abstraction and abstract categories when it is properly trying to sort out and put in order the things it knows. But it often assumes improperly that it has said–or known–enough when it has spoken of “the...

The debate over abortion

Yesterday, the Senate voted to block a bill aimed at limiting federal funding for Planned Parenthood; this action was taken after a series of videos were released that showed PP officials negotiating with a tissue-procurement company (or filmmakers posing as...