In Part 1 of our discussion, I offered up a definition of tolerance, and showed how that definition has changed in recent times. As a brief recap; the classic definition of tolerance is that you still value someone even though you disagree with them on something they say or do. The modern definition of tolerance [...]
Science has always been one of my favorite subjects. Knowing how things work and why things are the way they are only increases my wonder of the world around me. If you think about it, we start “doing science” as soon as we are born by playing in our environment. We learn that crying gets [...]
One of the more popular criticisms of Christianity is that its source documents (the books of the Bible) are full of contradictions. Many people see these contradictions as reasons not to trust the authors who wrote them. Did Judas hang himself, or did he fall off of a cliff and spill his insides out onto [...]
Recently I heard a pastor give a message on the Story of the Adulterous Woman. In the majority of modern translations, it appears as John 8:1-11. The story tells of an incident where the Pharisees plotted to catch Jesus in a Mosaic Law trap. They brought a woman to him who had been caught in [...]