To Jesus, prayer was a simple affair—ask and receive. Why then all the complications? Why get others to hear your prayer, pray to a saint, light a candle?
Bob Seidensticker
CROSS EXAMINED
After graduating from MIT, Bob Seidensticker designed digital hardware, and he is a co-contributor to 14 software patents. For more than a decade, he has explored the debate between Christianity and atheism. He recently finished his third book on the topic, "2-Minute Christianity."
Following Jesus’s rules isn’t so hard
What’s impossible about following Jesus’s rules? Sure, they’re strict, but we only have to follow them for a year or two … right?
Conspiracy theories and poor thinking without facts, oh my!
A conservative article sees a scary Leftist hiding in every closet and under every bed. I’m not used to reading this level of rage. Let’s try to understand the argument.
Christian rant against climate change is a paper tiger
A scattered conservative attack on climate change is full of rage. It should instead be full of facts. Let’s pick it apart.
Yet more Bible reboots
Consider some more reboots: After Adam, Noah, and Abraham, we get Moses and then Jesus. And maybe the story continues to reboot.
The Bible story reboots
Let’s look at the repeated story lines in which God makes an everlasting covenant with his people. There’s a The End, and then the story lurches forward with another reboot.
C. S. Lewis myths the point
C. S. Lewis handwaved he just knows myth when he sees it, and he doesn’t see it in Christianity. Sorry, Clive, but we need a more solid grounding of reality.
Movie Review: “God’s Not Dead 3”
For your movie streaming pleasure, here’s my review of #3 in the “God’s Not Dead” movie franchise series. While it did poorly financially, the script was an improvement on its predecessors.
Why is God hidden?
Making one’s existence known is a very easy thing to do. God could be as obvious as the sun. God may exist, but he’s *functionally* nonexistent.
God would not have permitted an evolving Christianity
Christianity has changed. Its canon of books has changed, its doctrines have changed, and the Bible itself records changes to the story such as the character of God.