Suffering. Pain. Evil. Often—in both my personal conversations and in my observation of others’—these rank as the greatest difficulties in reconciling the state of the present world with the notion of a “Good God”. How can so much evil exist if God is Love? And more poignantly, How can any evil exist if God is … Read more
For those of you who grew up in the average evangelical church (in my case, an independent Baptist church), you might have come across what’s called a “spiritual gift test”. The typical test will include a listing of gifts—called charismata in the New Testament—that derives primarily from two chapters in Paul’s Epistles: Romans 12 and … Read more
A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Yerba Mate For those looking to skip the written guide and head directly to the instructions, Click here to jump to video guide If you know me well—or even if you’ve simply glanced at my license plate—you will know that I am quite the proponent of yerba mate, a wildly popular … Read more
