You’ve probably heard of the problem of evil. In fact, you’ve no doubt wrestled with it yourself before. Anyone who’s experienced evil has. If there is an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, and perfectly good God who created and rules over this world, then why is there so much evil, pain, and suffering in it? This may be the most powerful and […]
What is beautiful? Certainly you can think of many things. Maybe you think visual beauty: something like the sun setting over the hills, a majestic snow-capped mountain range, a magnificent city skyline, your spouse or significant other. You may think of auditory beauty: Something like your favorite song or the sound of the gentle waves of the ocean rolling in […]
We all have our own unique desires. I desire to see the Cleveland Indians win the World Series, I desire a snowstorm, and I desire to read a good book. Most people I know do not happen to share those desires! Yet there are some desires that are common to everyone. In fact, it might not even be correct to […]
Here’s a form of a narrative you’ll hear increasingly commonly in the popular media and, often, scientific authorities. It goes something like this: The first life forms began when the necessary organic materials came together and began to sustain themselves and reproduce. Over billions of years, these organisms adapted and evolved to survive in their ever-changing environment, eventually acquiring a […]
“The more I examine the universe, and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the Universe in some sense must have known we were coming.“ – Physicist Freeman Dyson “A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology.” – Astronomer Fred Hoyle As modern […]
We might not agree on all moral truths. One person might think sex outside of marriage is wrong, another person might think it’s right. One person might think it’s okay to drink alcohol, another might think it’s wrong. We might not agree on exactly what is morally right or morally wrong, but nearly all of us can agree on this: […]
Why is there something rather than nothing? It’s the most foundational question you can ask about existence. Why does anything exist at all? Every single thing that exists in this universe — every atom, every star, every person, every mountain, every animal — it is possible for that thing not to exist. So too, there is no law of logic […]
Welcome to the first of several posts on making the case for God’s existence and involvement in the world, and in our lives personally. In this series, I want to discuss human experience and observation from many different fields, and how God is the best explanation for it all. This is a more hard-science-themed post, and a few others will […]
I was seven years old when I asked. My parents and I were sitting in the living room, and I asked them whether Santa Claus was actually real. At that point I really already knew the answer, but I wanted to hear it for certain. After a long moment, my parents told me the truth: Our Christmas presents each year […]
I expect this will be my last overtly political post for a while, because I feel like I’ve been way too politically-minded recently, and it’s taken away from developing a real closer relationship with God. But I also see the state of the nation we live in, and with it the state of the American church. Just as the country […]
Just another jar of clay, named Clay. I’m a Christ-follower who messes up a lot, blessed to be a husband and youth worker, trying to share the message that saved me. My aim with this blog is to explore how we ought to live and think as Christ-followers in the midst of the realities of today’s world.
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