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Does It Matter How Old the Universe Is?

In terms of subjects, astronomy was my first love and is still way up there. (OK, bad joke.) When I was a teen in the mid-1970s, I began to study it in earnest through some books I had bought. In the process, one thing that began to trouble me was the age of the universe.Continue reading “Does It Matter How Old the Universe Is?”

Can We Still Enjoy the Music of “Fallen” Christian Artists?

I suppose that for most of us who are Christians, music has played a role at least to some degree in our faith. For me, that was true when I came to saving faith at age 20. I had heard some of Amy Grant’s music at college through a friend of mine. By that time,Continue reading “Can We Still Enjoy the Music of “Fallen” Christian Artists?”

Acknowledging, “Including,” or Celebrating Mothers and Fathers?

My earliest memories of Mother’s Day (in the 1960s) are of my mother and the other mothers at my church wearing a corsage; similarly, my father and other fathers wore a boutonniere at church on Father’s Day. That tradition faded in the 1970s (at least where I went to church), but mothers and fathers wereContinue reading “Acknowledging, “Including,” or Celebrating Mothers and Fathers?”

Does It Matter What We Believe about Choosing or Being Chosen?

I grew up in the Reformed Calvinist tradition which, among other things, teaches that God chooses some people to be saved; this is known as predestination. Even as a child, I had some understanding of what it meant, and I believed it even before I ever read a Bible. Maybe it’s because I had atContinue reading “Does It Matter What We Believe about Choosing or Being Chosen?”