Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. The idea behind Lent was that the deprivation of something, traditionally a 40 day fast during daylight hours, in order to prepare hearts and spirits for Good Friday and Easter Sunday. In the past…
Jesus told us that the most important commandments are to love God with our whole being (heart, soul, mind and strength), and to love other people as we would love ourselves – in other words, we would always try to do what is in the…
Those things which we are told to constantly be doing are likely those which will demonstrate to us what is most important to God, both when it comes to what it means to love Him preeminently and to love others as ourselves. Here is a…
The British philosopher Antony Flew, who passed away in April of this year, was a prominent life-long atheist until his 80’s when he announced that he had changed his mind about the possibility of God’s existence. In a book, There Is A God, published in…
In his book, “Faith and Doubt,” John Ortberg quotes an atheist named Steven Weinberg: “Good people do good things, and bad people do bad things, but to get good people to do bad things, that takes religion.” Ortberg counters that atrocities committed in the name…
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