When I was 12, my family moved from a very small town in northwest Washington to a less-small town in central Iowa. That was when I entered my first bookstore, and one book that I remember seeing that first time (as well as many times thereafter) was Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, which had been publishedContinue reading “Future Shock and Life Change”
Category Archives: Christian Apologetics
Some Things God Cannot Do
The young boy of close friends of ours recently asked my wife and me a classic question: “Can God make a rock so heavy that even He cannot lift it?” He didn’t ask it in a challenging way but because he had read it somewhere. This question dates back to at least the 10th centuryContinue reading “Some Things God Cannot Do”
Speaking Out on Behalf of K-12 Teachers
“You don’t know how to do Tik Tok. My mom says old people like you should retire.” These words were spoken by a first-grader to his teacher in Ohio; her name is Mrs. Carter, and to make matters even worse, it was at the beginning of her last day as a teacher. She writes (onContinue reading “Speaking Out on Behalf of K-12 Teachers”
Why Do People Swear?
I recently came across an article suggesting a link between higher-than-average intelligence and swearing. Since this contradicts what is called in linguistics the poverty of vocabulary (POV) hypothesis, I decided to investigate this further. The POV hypothesis says that if a person is lacking in vocabulary, he or she is likely to fill in theContinue reading “Why Do People Swear?”
Is Salvation Pass/Fail?
If you have taken college/university courses, you have probably had the option of taking some classes (particularly electives) as Pass/Fail rather than receiving a letter grade (A, B, C, D, F). I got my Bachelor’s degree from a Christian college, and a couple of my favorite professors periodically asked somewhat provocative questions, like the oneContinue reading “Is Salvation Pass/Fail?”
To the Remnant 