The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd.
03942 – Evidence for Your Opinion?
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03670 – How God Treats Those whom God Loves
If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.----------------------------------Gender-neutral version: If I take...
03447 – Sing It!
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words. from Life Together
03315 – Facts vs. Stories
Facts go straight to the head, and stories go straight to the heart.
02898 – Facts are Facts
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to the facts.
02857 – “Refuge in Grief”
Here's what I most want you to know: this really is as bad as you think. No matter what anyone else says, this sucks. What has happened cannot be made right. What is lost cannot be restored. There is no beauty here, inside this central fact. Acknowledgement is...
02653 – Believe, or Do and Be?
Consider this remarkable fact: In the Sermon on the Mount there is not a single word about what to believe, only words about what to do and how to be. By the time the Nicene Creed is written, only three centuries later, there is not a single word in it about what to...
02495 – Religiosity Can Hurt People
When what we are offered in the Bible or what is reinforced by Tradition seems to contradict what we observe to be real, evangelicals have often been taught to submit to Scripture and Tradition and ignore the facts in front of us. But this kind of religiosity not only...
01985 – Labeling: The Easy Way Out
When I label someone, I no longer have to deal with them thoughtfully. I don't have to feel overwhelmed by the fact of their complexity, the lives they live, the dreams they have. There's hardly any action quite so easy, so utterly unimaginative, as the affixing of a...
01857 – Doubt Can Lead to Faith
Before doubt, I thought that faith was a matter of correct beliefs. My religious teachers taught me so: that if I didn’t hold the right beliefs, or at least say that I held them, I would be excommunicated from my community, and perhaps, after death, from God’s...