The ninth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, known as the Lord’s Prayer. We are examining this prayer through three different interpretations of Jesus. Was he a political revolutionary, a great moral teacher but not divine, or the Second Person of the Trinity, the Incarnate God? Here we ask…

The third and final post on what science and the deepening mysteries of understanding even the very basics of our universe and natural world. We previously considered a number of topics that demonstrate the more we learn, the less we know. What is real? This mishmash of current thinking and controversies in science…

This is the second in a short series on science and what we know. Are nearing the end of science? Or just beginning? And, can science answer the questions we assume it can? The last post covered wormholes and faster than light communication. The Impossible Machine: Life Science publications and news sites write routinely…

Do scientists have it all figured out? Ask most scientists that and I think you would get the answer: not even close. But, ask the average person that and I think they may have a quite different opinion. We’ve been told for so long — about a couple hundred years…

The eighth in the series on the Jesus Prayer, otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer. We’ve been analyzing the prayer by assuming three different interpretations of Jesus: political revolutionary, great moral teacher and the Son of God. Here we study why Jesus advised his followers to pray that God, their…

Graham Pemberton has again posed some deep and difficult questions about traditional Christian teaching, this time on the subject of evil. The question is: is God good, or evil, or both? …

Post seven in the series on the Jesus Prayer, otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer. Here we consider the most challenging — even frightening — part of the prayer which links God’s actions toward us to our actions toward each other. …

Our experience of time is so simple and settled that it doesn’t even register when suggestions are made that we don’t understand it. Of course we understand it. We are born, we live, we die. Only two things are certain: death and taxes. Time, Mark Twain sagely said, was something…

This is the sixth post on what we are calling the Jesus Prayer, otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer. Here we look at the teaching about asking for our daily bread. “Give us this day our daily bread.” As I write this post where Jesus taught his followers to ask God to meet their daily needs, the…