Following is a very good commentary on Ken Burns’ new documentary “Country Music” by John Aylon, a senior political analyst for CNN: We’re divided by culture as much as politics. The roots of red state vs. blue state tribalism reflect the different ways we live in rural and urban America. But while these divides run… Read More…
The brevity of life
“What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?” a university student asked me several years ago. “The brevity of it,” I replied without hesitation. … Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over.” – Billy Graham,… Read More…
People crave ‘escapism’ during uncertain times
Is a recession coming in 2020? Perhaps. The seemingly sudden onslaught of recession alarm bells in the United States and around the globe lately might make it a little easy to hit the panic button. Economists, investors, and market observers have started to sound a little extra gloomy when it comes to their economic predictions in… Read More…
Reasons of the heart
“I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now.” GK Chesterton Christian apologists regularly face what we call the distraction challenge: the temptation to take seriously insubstantial objections against God’s existence. An insubstantial… Read More…
Fifty Years Ago
On almost every complex issue, intelligent people who have been exposed to the same information still reach different and even contradictory conclusions. It turns out that the human mind cannot deal with high levels of uncertainty. When we try to analyze many, often contradictory, pieces of evidence with differing levels of reliability, human conclusions often… Read More…