“O taste and see that the Lord is good : blessed is the man that trusts in him.” –Psalm 34:8 You know the feeling. The first bloom has died off. What you thought would last forever has withered away. Summer has gone on for quite a while now, and the sultry heat is starting...
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*I’ll be out of town for a few weeks, but in the meantime I thought it might be helpful to share this brief essay I wrote a few years ago on “theological method,” exploring the controversial relationship between faith and reason in Christian thinking. It is in no way an exhaustive treatment, but does suggest a few important...
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This is my third reflection on my debates with my atheist uncle over Christianity. One of this favorite things to say was something like “Wouldn’t a just/loving/powerful God do x differently?” Wouldn’t a loving God make the world without suffering? Wouldn’t a powerful God make people so that they were less sinful? Wouldn’t a...
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In life, I’ve had few challenges finding like-minded people with which to surround myself. (It helps that my parents are pretty devout Christians and we’ve been going to church for as long as I can remember). I’ve never had trouble finding and befriending other Christians. I have found a church home at the Harvard...
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In reading over Jordan’s most recent post, I was saddened by her confession that she is a “coward.” Her post was an excellent one, and discussed many things that Christians often keep within themselves. However, I think she short-changed herself, and that she is much braver than she gives herself credit for. Let me...
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I have a confession to make. I am a coward. A bumbling, trembling, miserable coward consumed by fear.
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I live out in the middle of nowhere. It’s a great transition from the urban environment that I usually inhabit when I’m up in Cambridge–it’s quiet, it’s peaceful, it’s simple. But, more than anything, it is so beautiful here. Everything is blooming, our first vegetables and fruits for the year are starting to come...
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