Culture ⁽¹²⁾

"Doubt is not the enemy but the companion of faith, we are all Thomas now, in a secular society. And If the church doesn’t have the courage to be honest about [the feeling that every belief is contested and contestable], the rising generation that feels…

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry,…

“I would like you to imagine that you own a magic wand which allows you to arrange matters so that everyone in the world today begins to observe to the letter the ideal of respect for others embodied in humanist principles. Suppose that, everywhere in…

Regardless of one's stage in life, a Christian should always be able to answer the questions: what do I think Jesus is saying to me and how do I know that he's saying it to me? These inquiries were advised unendingly by Gordon T. Smith; a scholar who taught…

Freedom is one of our culture’s favourite buzzwords. It’s an applauded theme in film, politics, and art, and why shouldn’t it be? Freedom is a long sought after human right. Well known writer Ayn Rand said, “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my…