Lent begins tomorrow with Ash Wednesday, and that, of course, means that today is Mardi Gras. For the New Orleans crowd, it's a pretty lively celebration - a chance to let out all your human-ness before entering the solemn, spiritual season of Lent. For me, Mardi Gras has a another significance. And given Harvey Weinstein's … Continue reading Is Rape Forgivable?
Why do good people suffer?
This seems to be one of the most popular questions around Christianity. A quick search through religious pamphlets shows there’s no shortage of explanations: natural result of bad decisions, rotten luck (aka random chance), sometimes at the hand of bad people, the list goes on. In the Bible, especially the Old Testament (as God was … Continue reading Why do good people suffer?
(Reprised) Jesus’s Lineage – My FAVORITE Christmas Story. For real.
Yeah, I know everyone pretty much glosses over the “Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram, Jehoram the father of Uzziah" stuff and so on. And why not, right? I mean, it’s pretty much like reading through an Old Testament phone book. BUT, when it comes to Jesus’s lineage, there’s actually a really awesome story in there. … Continue reading (Reprised) Jesus’s Lineage – My FAVORITE Christmas Story. For real.
My Afternoon as a Homeless Man
For a brief period three years ago, almost to the day, I was homeless. (By brief, I mean “two hours.”) Voluntarily. This post is about what I learned – and who I met – when I decided to dress “homeless” and stand on a street corner in Baltimore panhandling for change. The Backstory: Coming out … Continue reading My Afternoon as a Homeless Man
The Atheists’ Faith, Part 4 (of 4)
In my prior post, I showed the inconsistencies in the notion that all life evolved from one single point, notably out of the sea. For the sake of argument, let's assume that it happened as the scientific explanation claims. As time passes, things get bigger, and eventually we end up with dinosaurs. That is, until … Continue reading The Atheists’ Faith, Part 4 (of 4)
The Atheists’ Faith, Part 3 (of 4)
In my prior post, I explained the unlikeliness (impossibility?) of simple, organic atoms randomly combining to get living DNA, and then the even more unlikelier leap to single-cell organisms. This week, the cells have to become lots of things. Assuming that our young Earth is filled with all different types of self-reproducing cells, and that … Continue reading The Atheists’ Faith, Part 3 (of 4)
The Atheists’ Faith, Part 2 (of 4)
In my last post, I showed how the scientific community has to break their own rules to get the Big Bang theory to work. So now, fast-forward a few billion years as the Universal “dust” from the Big Bang starts to coalesce into stars and planets and other debris, and we have balls of rock … Continue reading The Atheists’ Faith, Part 2 (of 4)
