Is your view of God big enough to encompass the entire universe…and all the life that may be in it?

On Thursday, NASA is expected to hold a press conference about a new find made by its Kepler planet-hunting telescope. It’s possible it could involve finding an extrasolar planet that’s very similar to Earth. This isn’t 20th-century science fiction anymore. Gone are the days when talk of extraterrestrial life centered around UFOs and abductions by little green men. It’s no […]

Pope Francis, it’s not unloving for God to “lead us into temptation”

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has made news for being one of the most unconventional recent popes. He has suggested that the Catholic Church needs to change its attitude toward certain issues, opted to eschew the typical papal residence for a modest guesthouse, and occasionally drawn the ire of both political conservatives and theologically conservative Catholics. He […]

Turn the other cheek doesn’t mean never fight (6 reasons why)

Turn the other cheek. It’s one of the most well-known sayings of Jesus. Just about everyone has heard it; just about everyone has used it. But do we really understand what it means? It definitely shocked Jesus’ hearers. They lived in a war-weary land that was plagued by violence. In the last century alone, they’d suffered under the rule of […]

If you ignore your conscience, it will stop working

If you ignore your conscience, it will stop working

Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. Those are the traditional five senses with which God has endowed us so that we can perceive the realities of the physical world. (It’s now thought that there are considerably more than five; we can include temperature, pressure, balance, proprioception, pain, hunger/thirst, oxygenation, and as many as ten more.) These senses are essential to optimal […]

How do you tell the difference between a miracle and coincidence?

The idea that supernatural forces make things happen in the natural world is one that fascinates everyone, skeptic and believer alike. As far back as we have record, people have claimed to experience and perform miracles. These range from voices thundering from heaven to controlling the weather to defying the laws of physics to healing incurable diseases to receiving divine […]