Atheism Part 2 of 2

  Russell was an ardent proponent of Darwinism. He taught his children that “mankind was no more than an accident of evolution.”  When he traveled with his family, his daughter recalls, “he suggested that we might lean out the windows when we passed other cars...

Atheism Does Not Set You Free!

Part 1 of 2        (Part 1 of 2)              I’m at it again, reading another book by an atheist, I mean a real atheist. I’m convinced that most people who say they are,  are not so in their heart of hearts. As one such man inadvertently said, “Thank God I’m an...

The Christian Answer to Suffering

Suffering is universal. Some people suffer from frequent illness or chronic pain. Others deal with the trauma of job failure, divorce, or mental illness. As we grow older, there come the inevitable sorrows of losing parents and spouses. I can still remember when I...

The Inconvenient Truth of Vain Philosophies

 Like Professor Peter Singer, teacher of Bioethics at Princeton University, who says,  “Newborn human babies have no sense of their own existence over time. So killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on...

Bonhoeffer and Cheap Grace

I was fascinated as a seminary student to learn about a modern day Christian Martyr named Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I was fascinated also to discover how many fellow pastors never heard of him. What was the equally  intriguing to me  about Bonheoffer’s life was that in his...