The fifteenth post in the series “What’s good about Christianity.” This is not about the truth or untruth of the Christian faith, but about whether believing certain ideas that are part of the faith is better than believing their opposites. Here we defend the proposition: It is better to believe…

The fourteenth (and almost final) post in a series exploring “what is good about Christianity.” My answer to that question generally is: it is good because it is true. (If you read the last post you might see I am saying that if it is true, it is also beautiful.)…

The thirteenth post answering the question: What good is Christianity. I am explaining the benefits of Christian belief as a starting point for discussion on the reformation or remaking Christianity. The idea here is that if these beliefs are beneficial and are based on the basic Christian teaching, however Christianity…

There’s a fair amount of stir in the science press about xenobots. My first thought was this was clickbait stuff. Like the name “murder hornets” for the large Asian hornets, now more innocuously named northern giant hornets. Add murder to the name of almost anything, like a gaggle of crows…

The 12th post defending some select Christian beliefs, not from a truth perspective but for the value they provide to those who believe them. The proposition in this 12th post in the series on the good of Christian belief defends this proposition: It is better to believe in the sacred…

This is the eleventh post in the series on the good I find in specific Christian beliefs. Again, this is not about truth or untruth, nor about justification for these beliefs. This is about whether these beliefs which I consider important to Christian teaching, better enable one to live a…

The tenth in the series on the reformation of Christianity. The first part of this series focuses on the benefits of Christian belief and does not argue for whether the belief system is credible or true. I refer those interested in those questions to review my previous posts. The proposition…

This is the ninth in a long series on the reformation of Christianity. I was challenged to write on this by Graham Pemberton. This series does not argue for the truth of Christianity. I’ve discussed that in many of my 200 plus posts on Medium. Instead, to analyze where Christianity…

(This is a brief interlude from the series on the reformation of Christianity.) I’ve read several books lately that fall into the category of “Big History” before I ever learned that that’s what I was reading. One of those was Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by one of the…