Let me start with Facebook as an example of a technology that people now consider optional. I know plenty of people who still don’t use it. Some never have, and a few eccentrics I know had Facebook accounts but gave them up. Will they always have that choice, or will Facebook, like various other technologies, someday become essentially a requirement …
When Life is Unfair, Can I Know God is Good?
Our guest blogger this week is Jim Davis, author of the upcoming book, Why Me? (And Why That’s the Wrong Question). I met Jim earlier this year at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. He was part of a wonderful group of writers who took part in a practicum I taught there, and he was working on a book …
Some Thoughts on That Planet Made of Diamond
Imagine a planet made of diamond. It exists. According to National Geographic, this planet, which has been given the unimaginative name “55 Cancri e,” is twice the size of earth but has eight times its mass. At least a third of the planet is composed of pure diamond. I am endlessly fascinated by astronomy and the discoveries that are being made …
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I am happy to welcome guest blogger Michael Bruner, a popular and gifted Honors professor at Azusa Pacific University. Michael was born and raised in the Philippines to missionary parents. He moved with his family to the US when he was ten and received his B.A. in English from University of Washington in 1988. He received his M.Div. from Princeton …
Why Christians Shouldn’t Run From Their Own Terminology
One of the issues I raise in the opening chapters of my new book, Pieces of Heaven: Recognizing the Presence of God, is how people shut out God from their conversations and thinking. People’s own mental distractions shut him out. Rules of etiquette shut him out in many social and business settings. The current academic and scientific assumptions of our …