Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: CHARACTER
People commonly use blogs to talk about their depression... There’s something very therapeutic about writing and expressing hurts and emotions, and of course there’s always the hope that someone will understand and perhaps care a little bit. (SPLINTRD "Alone on Parnassus") My motivation for discussing a struggle with depression here is firstly to observe and … Continue reading A DEPRESSION OBSERVED
1: YOUR EGO OR MINE? We all want others to feed our ego and our sense of self-worth. We all want to be flattered, admired and appreciated. But how many of us want to return the favor, particularly when that appreciation doesn’t pay us dividends in some way? Here lurks a most putrid of … Continue reading MIND BURP 11: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Some people are complaining that the Christian gospel offends them... (This post was first published over three years ago, and I felt it deserved another airing...) A very good friend of mine who isn't a professing Christian expressed his observation to me the other day that Christianity has a "bad press", and he suggested that this … Continue reading WHY THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE
You may be amused to find that some scientists are coming to the view that we need to eat fat after all, including saturated fats. A BBC report notes that scientists from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard, amongst others, looking at the results of nearly 80 studies involving more than a half million people, were unable … Continue reading EAT FAT AND KEEP RUNNING
I’m writing to you from my bed today... No, I’m not ill, but when I attempted to get out of bed this-morning the “Start the Day” software prompted me to enter my “Get out of Bed” password, but I couldn’t remember it, and it wouldn’t let the sheets roll back. I couldn’t remember the … Continue reading UTOPIAN PASSWORDS AND OTHER OXYMORONS
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 