I’m reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, and it makes me so angry I can’t sit still. It isn’t entirely his fault – I have developed serious issues with the entire tradition of Western philosophy. They basically take an idea that has been around forever, explain that it as completely unknown and unknowable, completely transcendent, [...]

I finally watched a documentary I’ve been hearing about for some time. It’s called “Jesus Camp”, and takes a close look at Evangelical ministries aimed at teaching and using kids to spread the message of Jesus Christ.
I was expecting it to be a lot more challenging, a lot more provocative. Many people have said it [...]

I just got back from watching the 2007 action flick, “Smokin’ Aces”…it may be old news in the West but it just came out here in Taiwan. I don’t usually find the need to blog about everything I do and see, what’s on TV, what I had for dinner, *(awesome nightmarket baked potato with corn [...]

When I went home to Portland this year I was at a family party and, as always, began talking Theology. One gentleman asked me if I’d read Lee Strobel’s book, “The Case for Christ.” Although he was a skeptic himself, the writing style and theme of the book, which claimed to investigate the historical Jesus [...]

Today’s BBC “Doha Debate” was about the choice of British Muslims to wear veils. On the panel, there were four experts – a man and woman for the veil (or at least the unimpaired freedom of wearing it) and a man and woman against the veil (or at least certain that the veil limited the [...]

I came across the “Rational Response Squad” a few months ago and dismissed them as a bunch of web-savvy teenagers hooked on the controversial power of atheism; however, they’ve just made national news on an NBC broadcast because of their “Blasphemy Challenge”. If you send them a video of yourself denying God, they’ll send you [...]

Tolerance is generally the act of allowing or accepting something which you disapprove of or don’t agree with. It comes in two forms; for the non-religious, it may be more accurately termed as “religious apathy”. It goes along with the idea that people should all be allowed to believe whatever they want. This is the [...]