Monday, November 17, 2025

Physics and Philosophy of Time

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  (I have aged. Linda has not.) (I'm re-posting this for a friend.) I am seventy-four years old. Where has the time gone!? And what, any...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Willam P. Alston – Religious Experience as Perception of God

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Self Today I've been looking over some old notes on religious experience, mysticism, and properly basic beliefs. Theistic philosoph...

Adultery: It's Not Complicated (Some Moral Truths Don't Change)

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  When it comes to "sin," things have pretty much been the same over the centuries. Stealing is still experienced as wrong. Lying,...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Why So Many Kids Are Not OK

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                                                        (Empire Beach sunset (Michigan)) Jonathan Haidt's book The Coddling of the Ameri...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Two Reasons to Abstain from Degrading People

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                                                                    (Our church yard) A follower of Jesus will not abuse people verbally. Fo...

Praying on the "Thank God Ledge"

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(I'm re-posting this. It's from my book  Praying: Reflections on 40 Years of Solitary Conversations with God . Linda and I saw ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Faith and Knowledge. Grace and Effort.

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                                                      (Looking out one of our church windows.) One of my morning devotional books is Hearing...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Why I Am Still A Christian

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  (Self portrait) (I re-post this periodically, to keep it in play.) At the end of one of my Philosophy of Religion classes a student asked ...

An Apprentice to Jesus Says “Thank You”

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                                                   (Trail through the woods in our backyard.) I have a habit of making lists of things I am ...