Thoughtful Reflections on Faith and Life
One of the most common claims that I hear from skeptics is that history cannot speak to the existence of miracles. This is especially aimed at the resurrection of Jesus but is used toward miracles in general. I have addressed this in a peer reviewed journal but I want to talk about it here. You … Read More “Are Miracles Out of Bounds for History?” »
One of the books that I had been looking forward to reading was Miracles by Craig Keener. My hesitance was that it was a two volume hardback and thought it would take a long time to get through. I was wrong. Much of the book is footnotes and bibliography, and so it doesn’t take near … Read More “Miracles – Review” »
As I write this post, it has been less than a week since Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi died of cancer. Many people, including me, were praying for his healing. But God didn’t heal him. Although many people will say his death and resurrection when Jesus returns will be a healing, let’s be honest and admit … Read More “Why Was That Godly Person Not Healed?” »
Close to twenty-five years ago I was a brand new Christian. I had come out of nominal Christianity, atheism and finally generic theism. I was (and am) still a skeptic at heart but wanted to grow in my faith. One of the first Christian books that I read was Miracles by C.S. Lewis. I didn’t … Read More “Miracles” »
Certain forms of the Jesus Myth Theory make a big deal out of the dying and rising theme where the experience of a god represents what is taking place in nature with regard to seasons and the harvest. Some of this emerges from James Frazier’s The Golden Bough. While I see many of the supposed … Read More “C.S. Lewis Challenges the Jesus Myth” »
A sermon based on Luke 5:12-32 preached at Queen St Baptist Church. Introduction There have been a number of movies that have stuck with me as having a real impact. One of those movies was the 1962, The Miracle Worker. This is the true story of Ann Sullivan and Helen Keller. I think what really … Read More “The Miracle Worker” »
I just had an article published in the journal Studies in Religion. The name of the article is “On the Treatment of the Supernatural by Zeba Crook.” My article is a response to one that had been previously published in the same journal where Zeba Crook, an associate professor at Carelton University, argued that historians must … Read More “On the Treatment of the Supernatural” »
One of the common obstacles to faith is belief in miracles. In fact, after the enlightenment, there was a move even among some church leaders and theologians to remake Christianity into an miracle-less religion. The thought was that modern people don’t or at least shouldn’t believe in miracles. The idea of God intervening in the … Read More “Common Miracles” »
One of the criticisms of Christianity is the belief in miracles. Miracles by definition are impossible. The laws of nature cannot be broken. There have even been forms of Christianity that have denied miracles as they are a bit of an embarrassment in a rational world. I would like to suggest another way to look … Read More “Impossibility of Miracles?” »
