Bogosity

Our ethics and values in todays society are mostly a bit muddy but maybe they are getting clearer.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why it is that you have certain ethics and values? I mean sometimes being a “good” person can get in the way. Have you ever just thought hang it all, [...]

Agnosticism for me is not about forgetting about God, rather, it has allowed me to be more honest with God and find new truths.

A traveler can’t cross the same river twice, for each time the river is crossed, the river has changed and the traveler has changed. This is how it is with God. [...]

Backyards are an excellent place for some quiet time, rest and recovery and encounters with the infinite.

I was just standing out in the backyard, enjoying the cool breeze, the silence, the dark sky, the enormous trees that the Forest Lake developers nicely left in the back corner of my yard – feeling at peace and [...]

I resigned from work this week and in the midst of facing this life change, I had some new thoughts about where it is that we get our strength and how our ideas about God and prayer can have both an adverse or a positive effect.

I’ve heard somewhere that people tend to fall into two [...]

After accusing my wife of not being a ‘real’ Christian on the way to work this morning (which naturally pissed her off) and telling her how I’m thinking of giving up writing this blog, I’ve decied to come clean and admit to myself and the world that I’m probably not a Christian anymore.

I guess that [...]

People often ask me if you don’t believe in a creator God and don’t believe that Jesus’ death on the cross is payment for your sins and don’t believe in miracles then why are you still a Christian? What’s the point?

Actually no-one has really ever had the guts to ask me that directly but [...]

Everybody knows that the image of God as an old man with a beard sitting above the clouds is way out of fashion. But what kind of God do you think of in his/her place? For a long time, I’ve had this kind of idea that God is sort of a disembodied being [...]