The fifth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, usually called the Lord’s Prayer. We consider what Jesus meant by what is usually translated “thy kingdom come.” Here we see considerable differences if one sees Jesus as a political revolutionary, a moral teacher but not divine, or as the Son…

Is science journalism showing signs of edging off the platform of physicalist dogma? A recent series from the New Scientist offers some reason for cautious optimism. In a recent post I asked how we can build a worldview based on science if science can’t answer basic questions about truth and…

Famous journalist and broadcaster Edward R. Murrow said: “Anyone who isn’t confused doesn’t understand the situation.” It was painted as a mural in the tiny town of Edison where I lived in beautiful Skagit Valley, Washington. …

The fourth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, also known as the Lord’s Prayer. Was Jesus a political revolutionary, a great moral teacher but purely human, or was he the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity? …

The fourth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, also known as the Lord’s Prayer. Was Jesus a political revolutionary, a great moral teacher but purely human, or was he the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity? We are looking at this famous teaching prayer through these…

The truth is science today cannot provide the answers we crave for what is real and what is true. But it is also true that many today continue to believe that it does. That has real consequences for worldviews and therefore how we think and act. Science as the new authority Since the late 17th…

Locating God the Father in a created place called heaven was a revolutionary teaching then and remains so today. This is the third in a series exploring the Jesus Prayer, often called The Lord’s Prayer. Whether Jesus is seen as a martyred political revolutionary, a great moral teacher, or the…

We are examining the Jesus Prayer, usually called The Lord’s Prayer, exploring what it can teach us from different views of who Jesus was — political rebel, great moral teacher or Son of God/Messiah/Christ. The second post in the series. We think nothing of it now, but when Jesus taught…

This begins a new series and a bit of a departure from most of my nearly 240 posts on Medium. They have mostly dealt with questions of faith and science but dipping into philosophy, biology, comparative religions and theology — even social commentary a time or two. If there is…