Life equals food & shelter, and then relaxing and enjoying. Nothing more than that. A long time ago I wrote down a question on a post-it note. What if we made huge machines and robots to do everything for us? The question came from my imaginary invention of a machine that chewed up asphalt, melted […]
This little fact is possibly the most freeing thing that I know – You are not better or worse than anyone. It is so cliché that no one even bothers to mention it anymore. If you Google ‘all people are equal’ you will get a whole slew of articles entitled ‘all people are not equal.’ […]
In grade two I went to a Christian school and during Easter our teacher took us deep into understanding the torture of death on a cross. You would think this would have a profound effect on a 7-year-old psyche, but the grotesque physical pain was not the main impression on me. What made my young […]
It is easy to say, “I believe life has meaning.” In the case of Christianity, you hear people saying all the time that they believe in Jesus. Even in a century of apparent decline for the church, 83% of Americans say they are Christians! It is different to really believe. There is a disconnect between what […]
I was recently fascinated to learn that J.R.R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings, was friends with C.S. Lewis, the prominent Christian author famous for the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe series. I dug a little more, and learned that they attended school together and even dedicated books for one another (the next […]