A lot of people ask how can a just God, a kind God, even just a God that wants us to follow his rules, allow so much suffering and sadness in the world. It’s a legitimate question, theologically speaking. I’ve talked with God about it a couple of times before and gotten pretty […]
Today I want to talk a little about “The God of the Gaps.” This is a term that is used to describe the reductionist approach that the domain of religion is only those things that science cannot explain. There was this notion that most of the universe was ultimately inexplicable, because it was […]
I’m always trying to find new ways to look at what God is. I know that the various forms in which God shows herself to me don’t even begin to scratch the surface, let alone represent the surface. The notion held by so many that God is a man hanging out in Heaven […]
There’s been a lot of talk about how man needs a moral compass, that, without God to guide us and tell us not just to do the right thing but what the right thing is, we’d descend into violent anarchy. I’m of the opinion that we won’t. There’s the whole Secular Humanist movement […]
One of the things that mankind does differently now than we used to, and differently than all the other animals, is to belong to more than one tribe. Myself, I belong to the tribe of computer programmers, and the tribe of organized science fiction fandom, and the rather small tribe of my family. […]