Leaving the Deadly Loop

Reading Time: 5 minutes In a recent online discussion I was having, the idea of “God is love” came up, with the intention of showing that a particular doctrine I was holding could not be true, because “God is love.” I’m thankful for conversations like these because they cause me to dig into what…

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The Narrowness of Numbers

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was in school, I hated math. I despised how cruel and unforgiving it seemed. A misplaced decimal, a forgotten carry-over digit, a wrongly executed operation, and you were done for! No room for creative expression, no place for a personal perspective. It was what it was and success…

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The Point of Sand and Stars

Reading Time: 3 minutes “There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth’s beaches,” wrote the famed astronomer Carl Sagan. And reading his words, we see that strange pairing of sand and stars, commonly found in Scripture as well. Why are these two seemingly disparate objects so often joined together…

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