We're celebrating Christmas today...Do you know why God became man? Do you know why the Word become flesh and dwell among us? Do you know why God sent forth His Son born of a woman? Some say we make too much of Christma...

Rejoicing in Winter? Winter Cold Dark Seed Planted Hidden Dormant Dead? No Winter Cold Dark Seed Planted Hidden Dormant Growing? Yes Winter Cold Dark Seed Planted Hidden Dormant Sprouting? Not yet Behold, the f...

By Jeff at The Mockingbird Blog When I say Christmas, I will bet that the first thing that comes to your mind is not “the incarnation of God the Son”. I’ll bet the image in your mind has something to do with a manger ...

Dear Dad, Happy Birthday! I don't know if I ever told you how much I enjoyed your letting me go along on business with you. You'd drive to your various clients to pick up and drop off their accounting books. I loved it ...

Very few writers are as acute in diagnosing our cultural and societal illnesses as Wendell Berry.  Berry wrote this poem, The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, in 1973, which you can tell by his references to computer ...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Since the recent blow-up at Revelife I've been trying to sort a lot of things out...I've been quite stressed and ill at ease. Conflicted. I've felt like my insides were being rippe...

Back in October, Socrates_Cafe was looking for topics to discuss.  One of the suggestions was to discuss the meaning of life.  That topic was not then slected for discussion, but I thought I should come back to...

In reading this post this morning, it was the first time I'd ever seen someone who believes in the resurrection posit that there is no human soul. The relevant paragraphs were: I don't believe people have souls....

Bart Ehrman is the author of the equally feared and revered book Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.  The book is feared, of course, by evangelical Christians who feel that Ehrman is ...