via The Resurrection of Christ the Lord from the dead–Thomas Merton

via Palm Sunday–Triumphal Entry! by William Barclay

I have been asked to tell you what Christians believe, and I am going to begin by telling you one thing that Christians do not need to believe. If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you […]

via Sorting it Out — A Pastor’s Thoughts

via Chiesa Santa Maria dellIsola Church, Tropea, Italy

Sociologist Christian Smith has identified an interesting and important dynamic in Western culture concerning beliefs about how a superhuman power could (or perhaps would) exert causation in the material world. According to Smith, many in the modern West make the misguided assumption that miraculous interventions into the natural order—anomalous events that defy the regularities described […]

via Kepler’s Snowflake: Do Natural Processes Rule out Divine Intelligence in Nature? — Melissa Cain Travis