God is…

Friday, August 27th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in God's Character | 1 Comment »

God is love. We hear that a lot. And I think that's absolutely true. God is love. However, I sometimes wonder if we are understanding the entire scope when we say things like that. To say that "God is love" carries with it a rather distinct meaning from it's inverse, "Love is God." Those two things are not the same. This is very much unlike one of the mathematical theorems that says if a=b then b=a. ...

Discrimination Against Christianity

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Belief | 3 Comments »

One of the ironies in the area of politics and religion seems to be that those people who strongly profess a faith of some sort feel as though they are being persecuted by the secular minority and the secular minority feels as though they are being persecuted by those who are religious. It's an interesting predicament. Every time I read and article or hear a conversation about abortion or same-sex marriage or the myriad of other ...

The Convenience of Money

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Society & Culture | Comments Off

I don't know if you're old enough to remember this, and perhaps I'm showing my age a bit, but do you remember what life was like before debit cards? I still remember what it was like when we didn't have the Internet (or at least the World Wide Web), or cell phones, or ATMs. The more I think about that, the more I can't help but wonder if all the conveniences and advances in technology actually ...

Misapplication of Truth

Friday, August 6th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture | Comments Off

It's not a new thing to point out the flaws of Christians and use that as an argument against the veracity of the Christian faith. Many things have been written on this subject and today I've been thinking about something along these lines that I have not yet read anywhere else. That is, the idea of misapplying objective Truths. While, on the one hand, I could say that non-believers do this, I would be remiss if ...