King is sailing, they say

Everybody’s favorite young college student, Jumping from Conclusions, has recently introduced me to the writings of Robert Green Ingersoll.  Ingersoll was a writer and orator, back in the days when public oratory was a form of entertainment.
Ingersoll often spoke on progressive issues of the day: women’s suffrage, anti-slavery, and agnosticism.  His writing often denouned religious [...]

Everybody else is writting about it.  I might as well write about it also, to keep from being an irrelevant dinosaur.  Speaking of dinosaurs, here is Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis placing blame on the Virginia Tech shooting on those of us who do not take Genesis Chapters 2 and 3 as literal history.  [...]

I have a few simple questions to those who have some sort of relationship with God.  This is not setting you up for ridicule - I really want to know.

How does God talk to you?  Do you hear an audible voice?  Does God speak to you by testings and trials?  A feeling?
What sorts of things [...]

On Easter Morning, I published an article which challenged my previous assumption that Jesus Christ physically rose from the dead about 2000 years ago.  Concerning the debate that the article generated, Reader Stan offers the following comment:
But it is quite evident that the process taken here is based on the goal. Christians want to believe [...]

Regarding the Resurrection, and continuing the comments from the last article:  
But to me, it is not what is possible, but what seems most plausible. The Synoptic Gospels line up the events of Jesus life fairly well. The Synoptics line up the events of the cross pretty well also, despite the differing sayings of Jesus in [...]

Last year about this time, I celebrated Easter as a committed believer of our Risen and Living Savior.  I have done so every Easter I can remember except for a rebellious stint I had while in my 20s (we all have those, no?).  The one thing I knew for certain was that it was impossible to be a [...]

I had intended to do several thorough book reviews on this site, but I read the books faster then I can write the reviews.  The task of writing reviews is just daunting to me, so I am going to quickly review every book I have read in the last year, mostly from researching and trying [...]

I tend to stay away from topics that are too emotionally charged.  I am more of the systematic type – here is a Bible verse, here is what I think it means, here is a creed, here is my polemic spew on it.  But a lot of our beliefs are based on highly charged emotion, [...]

Reader Heather submites the following comment and open question:
Here’s a general question for anyone — in terms of the Bible, what are the clear-cut, no way around it, ways that one knows one is saved? All I’ve really found is believe in the Son, and ‘publicaly confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in one’s [...]

I am a little drained from writing so much last week.  I have a lot to think about, and a lot to sort through.  I want to have faith in God, but it is whittling away despite my fervent prayers and study. 
In the meantime, I found this article by DagoodS called Can’t Win.  He is a [...]