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Thoughts on religion, politics, life and death. And other banned topics.

Month: October 2009

  • Facebook Rescue

    Read and comment on my blog. The other day my daughter came in from walking the dog with a gadget she had found in the street. It looked like a beefed-up tricorder from the original Star Trek. It had a large, greenish yellow LCD screen and lots of buttons with curious inscriptions, and it was…

  • On Selfishness

    Read and comment on my blog. The concept of selfishness has such a wide variety of meanings and contradictory nuances that it is almost impossible to disentangle them all. Selfishness has been lauded as a virtue and castigated as a vice. Some have even attributed selfishness to objects that have no ‘self’: most notably to…

  • New Problem of Pain

    Read and comment on my blog. Mark Tabb offers a very accessible explanation for why God allows pain and suffering in the world. Using the book of Job as well as anecdotes from his own experience as a pastor and chaplain, Tabb takes on the problem of pain and provides a defense that is compassionate,…