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  • Changing My Mind

    Most of us believe a myth about how knowledge is acquired, especially about how we ourselves go from ignorance and error to knowledge and truth. We tell ourselves that when evident facts contradict what we believe, then we will change our minds. That has not been my experience. Deeply held beliefs require a lot of…

  • What a Witness Does

    Growing up as I did in the evangelical church, I heard a lot about witnessing, and it warped my understanding of what a witness does. From a young age I thought that witnessing meant “telling others about Jesus.” I was unaware at first that the broader culture rarely used “witness” as a verb, or that…

  • Letting Evil Win

    When God created the world and everything in it, his appraisal of all he had made was that it was very good. Every good gift comes from God, and he is incapable of doing evil because his very nature is love. Evil entered the world when people first began to suspect that God was not…

  • After the Stoning

    After receiving some questions, I realize that I need to set the context for this imagined story. The speaker is a member of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem who has just participated in stoning Stephen to death. Stoning was a method of execution that required community participation, so you would get together with friends and colleagues…

  • Patience and Power

    Love begins with patience. Fundamental to every act of love is respect for the agency of the one loved. This is the main reason why God does not intervene in ways we think he should to prevent war, pestilence, famine, and other causes of large-scale suffering. His intervention takes the form of individual acts of…

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