Between Two Worlds
I grew up on a small ranch in Northern California. My mother, who was raised in rural Tennessee and loved the land, managed the ranch and home. My father was an Appellate Court Judge in …
Philosophy
Beauty and More: A Systematic Approach to Reconciling Aesthetic Categories
For years, I have processed some of my aesthetic ideas here on Faith on View. I began discussing these ideas with the essays On The Beautiful, The Sublime, The Pretty, and the Ugly & Distinguishing between the …
The Perspective That Informs My Gratitude
The girth of our gratitude is proportionate to the depth of our perspective. This truth was once again made apparent as I visited with my 87-year-old mother prior to this year’s Thanksgiving holiday. It has …
Corrective lenses: Why I was wrong about spanking my children
A recent trip to the optometrist reminded me that the unfortunate realities of aging include worsening eyesight. At this rate, my eyesight may soon be as bad as my hearing; at least, that is what …
The forest that buried the railway station
Even though I live in town, there’s a non-park wooded area within a short distance of my house that I sometimes like to go for a walk through. As woods go, they’re not as enchanted …
An Evangelical addiction to strength
I wonder sometimes how much our religious focus as evangelicals relates to what we find in scripture. Certainly, at the heart of evangelicalism is the greek word euaggelion (good news) and as evangelicals, we strive to …
Considering the Idea of a Biblical Worldview
The concept of a Christian worldview is fundamentally simple, but its implications are profound. There are a modest number of foundational assumptions necessary to view the world from a Christian perspective. Beyond that the task …
I am still writing my obituary
I write obituaries for a living. Well, only technically. It’s more honest to say that I edit obituaries as one of my job duties. In the free newspaper obituary business, there’s very little writing; it’s …
Francis Bacon on religion, fanaticism, superstition, and the social order
I received an opportunity to give a presentation four years ago at a conference held on the campus of Central College in Pella, IA on the theme of “Faith and Reason in the Reformations.” The …
A hidden picture? The image of God in humanity
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, …