Tag: #apologetics
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A woman’s perspective on the gospel, part 1
Back when I was in college, I took a creative writing class, and occasionally I try to write short stories. But I’m not that good. Among other things, I naturally wind up writing characters that strongly resemble me. And, according to my children, I’m a pretty boring person. Everyone naturally views the world around themselves…
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Breakfast memories for a lifetime
Forty years later, I remember the moment like it was yesterday. It was late morning, the sunlight trying to filter through an overcast sky. Not unusual weather for January in Cleveland. I was working on physics or math homework while sitting at my dorm room desk. That consisted of the right-hand end of a long strip of white Formica that ran the width of the room in front of the windows. Two sets of drawers separated my roommate’s desk…
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Not a legend in his own time
I would have been tempted to make the same error if I were in his shoes. Students in my PhD graduate research group were taking turns practicing our research talks for the upcoming national conference. One of the newest students introduced his topic, discussed background information and described what he had done. So far, so…
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Implications of the Big Bang
Albert Einstein later called it ‘the greatest blunder’ of his life, at least that is how the story goes. At the beginning of the 20th century many astronomers assumed that the universe was static and unchanging. For good reasons. They had found the distances between stars to be mind-boggling and no evidence of them moving…
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An existential question of truth
I was afraid to open up about my true, inner thoughts. In my church youth group I had been paired up with an adult volunteer. Not just any guy, but a seminary student studying to be a professional religious person. On the outside that surely looked like a good idea. My father served as a…