The French connection

That's my grandfather, Joseph Yves Louis Lehardy. He was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, to borrow from Churchill. Both he and my grandmother died before I was born, and 4 of their 7 children passed on before my 18th birthday. His family grew up broken apart by hardship and tragedy; ... Continue reading

Blind faith

When a Fail-Safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe. — John Gall, Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, 1975. "I truly believe Metro is a safe system." — DC Metro General Manager John B Catoe, Jr., quoted in the Washington Post. A "fail-safe" automatic traffic ... Continue reading

Joe Carter on certainty and doubt

Doubt is one of the greatest challenges to faith. We worship an unseen God, we live in the power of an unseen Spirit, we have been redeemed by a Jew who was executed and some say rose from the dead more than 2,000 years ago. And yet, despite the enormous challenges we finite creatures have in ... Continue reading