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February 21, 2022 - Never Perish
In A Horse Walks into a Bar, author David Grossman has a standup comedian say: “Exactly at this minute, more or less, in the old Hadassah...
February 14, 2022 - The Second Coming
Imagine the following story: a child is kidnapped, and the parents pay a huge ransom to the kidnappers in order to get their child back...
February 7, 2022 - The Convictions of a Monkey’s Mind?
“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the...
January 31, 2022 - The Illusion of Being Eternal
French atheist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre wrote that life itself is drained of meaning “when you have lost the illusion of being...
January 24, 2022 - Law and Grace
Some of the best-known verses in Protestantism are found here, by Paul: “knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but...
January 17, 2022 - Without Excuse
After a greeting and introduction, the apostle Paul opens the book of Romans with a powerful condemnation of humans. Though talking...
January 10, 2022 - The Sin Problem
As humans we’ve built great empires, have harnessed electromagnetism, have explored the nooks and crannies of atoms, have created...
January 3, 2022 - The Inscription
One of the most prestigious universities in the world, and certainly in the United States, is Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
December 27, 2021 - Cheap Imitations
We’ve often heard the phrase, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” The idea, simply, is that if you copy someone it is because...
December 20, 2021 - The Wisdom of the World
For years, the greatest scientific minds in the world knew, with utter certainty, about the existence of the “luminiferous ether,” this...
December 13, 2021 - Oysters and Us
There’s one thing we humans have in common with oysters. And that is we, like oysters, die. There is, however, one big difference...
December 6, 2021 - Hunks of Spoiling Flesh
Ever visit Qumran, in the Judean desert, the site of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls and where a Jewish community once lived, moved and had...
November 29, 2021 - It is So
In a well-known quote, Ellen White wrote: “In like manner you are a sinner. You cannot atone for your past sins; you cannot change your...
November 22, 2021 - The Hope of Eternal Life
“Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies,” wrote John Gray, “will at last be realized. Sickness and ageing will be...
November 15, 2021 - Redemption in Him
A young man, not even a believer in God, every now and then would think: Well, maybe there is some God in heaven, after all. However,...
November 8, 2021 - Future Stock
Predicting the future is no easy matter. Gamblers don’t know for sure, until a second before, which horse is going to win the race....
November 1, 2021 - Long Time Passing
For most of human history, thinking people believed that the universe was eternal. That it had always existed. Aristotle believed this,...
October 25, 2021 - The Scoundrel
“Man,” someone wrote, “can get used to anything, the scoundrel.” It’s true, is it not? Who among us hasn’t experienced for themselves the...
October 18, 2021 - The Power of Words
Author James Thurber wrote about the time in March, 1913, when someone, they don’t know who, said that the dam outside the town had...
October 11, 2021 - Why Not?
In a stirring memoir, written as he was dying of cancer, atheist apologist Christopher Hitchens, who, as far as we know, never changed...

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