More Planting, Watering, Harvesting

With Thanksgiving week here, I’ve been thinking about what I’m most thankful for right now. It didn’t take me long to realize what that is. Three months ago, I received an e-mail from a man who was my student in a Third World country 38 years ago. We had been in touch sporadically a fewContinue reading “More Planting, Watering, Harvesting”

More Coddling at American Universities

Last week, I saw headlines related to several universities across the country that had canceled classes the day after the presidential election. The purpose was to allow time for students to “recover” from the stress of the election results. Here are some examples of universities that not only canceled classes but took things a stepContinue reading “More Coddling at American Universities”

What Is Your Greatest Fear?

Since tomorrow is Halloween, a strange holiday which revolves around fear, I thought this would be a good time to write about a survey I came across a few months ago. Maria Stenvinkel, co-founder of Fearless Minds, gives us a list of the greatest fears of 65 people from 18 different countries. What distinguishes thisContinue reading “What Is Your Greatest Fear?”

Nineveh and the U.S., 150 Years Later

Early this year, my church finished our 3-year Bible-reading plan. One book in particular that struck me was Nahum, who was a prophet in Old Testament Israel. The entire book is focused on Nineveh. If you’re familiar with the Bible, you probably remember that there is another book focused on Nineveh: Jonah. Over the years,Continue reading “Nineveh and the U.S., 150 Years Later”

Can You Live by an Evolutionary Worldview?

As a teen, I learned about evolution, which was seen as a completely random process. Over time, I came to see its numerous flaws and concluded that it was not a viable theory; I have written about the reasons for that here: https://keithpetersenblog.com/2020/09/16/is-evolution-a-viable-theory/ (Don’t worry; it’s not “technical.”) In Charles Darwin’s original formulation of evolution,Continue reading “Can You Live by an Evolutionary Worldview?”