There’s a tempest brewing around in my mind every time I sit down to write. I am overcome with the realization that there’s a certain type of responsibility built into everything I write.
Although I believe that knowledge is always in process, there is a definitive act that takes place when we put pen to paper (or […]
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One consistent thread of postmodernism is to deny that human beings can possess absolute truth. This is not necessarily to say that Absolutes do not exist (although some indeed say this), but rather that our condition as human beings makes it impossible for us to grasp them. This makes a lot of people very uncomfortable […]
From Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio, § 31-32:
…there are in the life of a human being many more truths which are simply believed than truths which are acquired by way of personal verification. Who, for instance, could assess critically the countless scientific findings upon which modern life is based? Who could personally examine the […]
I’m reading Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis” right now, and liking it a lot. He talks about needing to die to being Superpastor, because Superpastor was a lie who needed everyone’s approval to be OK. Although nobody had told him this explicitly, Superpastor was some grandiose image of a person who isn’t actually human. […]
