20 years of blogging
Reflections on 20 years of blogging about God and life. Why do I do it? Who cares? Does it matter?
Tag: Good things
Hope?
Do you feel you need more hope in 2025? What gives people hope? Is it important? Are people’s hopes ever fulfilled?
The day God saved my life …. perhaps
I don’t really expect God to speak to me. But one day he did, and it may have saved my life!
Is altruism really good for you?
Altruism benefits the giver as well as the recipient, and religious beliefs and practices tend to promote altruism. But there are better and worse forms of altruism.
Three lives changed!
A story of a mother and two daughters whose lives were changed one by one. Were these changes miraculous? You be the judge!
Would you like to live forever?
Would you like to live forever? Silly question? Could eternal life be boring or impossible? Or could it be wonderful? And is it possible?
12. It works (mostly!)
This page in brief …. In the previous eleven posts in this series, we have seen that many different aspects of life (the universe, human life, the history of Jesus and human experience) all seem to make more sense if there is a creator God, than if there is not. In this final post, we […]
Buying books online: Book Depository
This post is about buying books online, and finding where is the cheapest and best.
Atheists and religious traditions
Today is Thanksgiving in the US. Thanksgiving can have different meanings for different people, but probably the two main emphases are a day for family to get together, and a day to thank God for his many blessings to us. So what does a conscientious atheist do? Should she just shut up and join in? […]
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in his poem Maud wrote: Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother’s shame; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. Most of us, upon reading that, would probably smile ruefully and […]