http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays and commentary on Christian faith in a postmodern age. en-us talk-to-me@anotherthink.com 2008-08-28T01:06:47-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/discovering_god/20080828_survival_instinct.html Is there a God who embraces us when we cry out in the darkness, or is there just the empty echo of our own voices? Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has found a surprising answer to that question. 561@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Discovering God 2008-08-28T01:06:47-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/postmodern_culture/20080822_deconstructing_woody.html In a recent interview for Newsweek, Woody Allen talks about the "existential horror of being alive." 560@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Post-modern Culture 2008-08-22T10:06:41-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20080820_are_we_alone.html God is (unhelpfully) invisible and apparently silent. When I am sitting on a rock in the desert sun, I may believe God is watching, I may even believe there are leprechauns hiding among the trees, but that hardly makes it so. Are we alone? 559@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays on Faith 2008-08-20T10:06:53-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/discovering_god/20080812_no_going_back.html Thoughts and observations while hiking in Madera Canyon. 558@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Discovering God 2008-08-12T09:44:33-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/politics/20080808_political_psychosis.html Is a new ad by the McCain campaign meant to strike fear in the hearts of evangelicals? 557@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Politics 2008-08-08T22:39:58-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/postmodern_culture/20080806_what_are_you_worth.html The Judeo-Christian concept of human worth is that we are God's priceless, crowning act of creation. The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a more utilitarian view, valuing human beings at $7.22 million each. So, which is it? Are we priceless, or are we mere commodities, stamped with a price tag like everything else? 556@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Post-modern Culture 2008-08-06T01:33:05-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20080715_beauty_and_violence.html We desire beauty, but live in a time of great violence. It has always been thus in human history. It was just the same in Jesus' day, when he taught that the conquest of violence would happen through beauty. 555@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays on Faith 2008-07-15T10:38:45-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/discovering_god/20080710_monsters_among_us.html Meet the Gila Monster, prehistoric star of Hollywood horror films and modern diabetes research. 554@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Discovering God 2008-07-10T10:22:08-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20080708_dreams.html Do you have dreams? Kent Couch always dreamed of flying above the clouds, and he finally did just that. God has dreams, too. 553@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays on Faith 2008-07-08T09:11:57-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/discovering_god/20080703_where_have_i_been.html It's been 50 days since my last post. Where have I been? 552@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Discovering God 2008-07-03T09:54:09-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/discovering_god/20080702_faith_thrives_in_america.html How healthy is religious faith in the United States? According to this new study by the Pew Forum, it's thriving. 551@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Discovering God 2008-07-02T01:30:10-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20080427_under_the_influence_of_radicalism.html We borrow everything we believe from someone else. All of us are persuaded by the words and actions of others, and once we are persuaded, we build our lives around their beliefs. Whose words move you? Whose philosophy guides you? 550@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays on Faith 2008-04-27T12:13:04-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20080420_framing_stories_bias_and_truth.html Every one of us adopts a framing set of beliefs that describe life's purpose and our duties. These framing stories may have been handed down to us by our elders or adopted from the library of modern secularism. They help us define truth and error. But how do we know our story can be trusted? 549@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays on Faith 2008-04-20T10:19:30-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20080327_i_robot.html Sin is our failure to conform to the purposes God created us for. Sin is like a malfunction that causes harm to ourselves and others. But God came up with a remarkable kindness to deal with our malfunctions. 548@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Essays on Faith 2008-03-27T08:57:53-07:00 http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/discovering_god/20080321_before_easter_comes.html Before Easter could come, Christ had to suffer with the crushing burden of our sin. 547@http://www.anotherthink.com/ Discovering God 2008-03-21T09:06:41-07:00