Science

A Part of Nature that Partly Transcends Nature

One of my favorite things to say to people: You are a divinely created, infinitely loved, spiritually indwelt, evolutionary, free-will son or daughter of God. I usually end my podcast episodes with this assurance. But what does the word “evolutionary” mean here? That each of us is a child of nature …

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It’s a dangerous world. Trust God?

Science, Spiritual Experience

We know that ours is a dangerous world; but we are also told to trust God. How does this knowledge fit together with this advice? Some say that, given a world like ours, it makes no sense to trust God. Some believers place their trust in God in such a way that they feel just fine about remaining …

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From emotion through value to worship

Philosophy, Science, Spiritual Experience

From sweets to saints, various attractions fill the mind. Diverse values activate emotional responses that are sometimes disordered. A lesson from psychology helps us order our value-responses gloriously. Barbara Fredrickson is a psychologist specializing in the experimental study of positive …

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Getting to know people with a vocational interview

Science

What do you do for a living? What advice would you give to someone who is going to do that work? What is your greatest satisfaction in your work? What is your greatest challenge in it, and how do you respond when you are living at your best? What qualities are needed to do it well? What are the five …

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Loneliness, community, and spirit

Science, Truth

So many people are lonely! And how deep is the loneliness! It is a loneliness of soul, craving a friend, craving a community to belong to, a safe place to communicate these longings and to take the steps on a journey. Meandering in hopelessness and lack of purpose and direction makes it easier for …

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Why I shuddered while reading Don Quixote

Arts, Science, Spiritual experience

I blissfully believe in God. That is enough in the minds of some people for me to be classified as mentally unbalanced. I also delight to believe in angels and in healing, thus making me suspect in the minds of some believers. I even thrill to accept what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8 that …

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