Do all religions worship the same God? The answer to this question is in the definition of God or gods. I remember working in O’Hare at American Airlines, when one passenger approached me wanting to travel to Liberia. We argued for a while because he would not give me his visa for this country, which […]
Don’t we all worship the same god?
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Christmas is not Pagan, or is it?
Is Christmas pagan? One dear friend of mine does all he can to isolate his family from Christmas customs such as but not limited to Christmas trees, Santa Claus, reindeer, Mistletoes. Is he right? Much of the customs we have adopted are rooted in the secular and pagan world. So then why celebrate Christ’s birth? […]
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Icons : Worshiping the Dead or venerating those more alive than us?
Kissing the dead, that is what I saw happening when I was in Romania a few years ago with my bride. We entered a monastery that had the bones of a saint who had been dead over one hundred years. His skull was sticking out of his glass coffin for parishioners to “draw grace from” […]
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Is it Logical to worship God?
“Is it logical to worship God?” Just the other day, one of my students, walked in to my office and asked me that question. Or why on earth does God need to be worshiped? Is he in need of attention? The answer is just out of this world!! In a world that claims not to […]
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Did God return to the crime scene?
God’s Crime Scene, by Jim Warner Wallace is a fantastic and absolutely engaging book. It is his sequel to his Cold Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels. In this book, Wallace investigates the evidence for the existence of God using multiple sources in very creative ways. There are a few interviews […]
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“new” The Unity of Truth and Plurality of Faiths
Do We All worship the same God? The Unity of Truth and the Plurality of Faiths audio link I was invited to speak at NIU… on Tuesday night March 8th on this issue. InterVarsity hosted a series of God questions at Northern Illinois University on March 8th Below is the link Do we All Worship […]
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We all Lie–especially to ourselves
You are a thief and a liar! You may not be a grand thief—you won’t take the office computer home, but the office pen won’t hurt, will it? You lie to yourself (that dress doesn’t make you look fat), you lie to others (just this one brownie won’t hurt you), and you cheat, although minimally […]
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What am I? What is the Soul?
When my niece was standing over the little coffin over heard someone say, “He is with God now”…it is difficult to remember who said it… but I will never forget what Ariana said in response. It is what she said that gets many adults confused and frustrated. Ariana asked, “If he is with God, how can […]
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Am I more than my body? The error of Descartes
The body of Rene Descartes was found in the Chicago river yesterday. The body of Aristotle is in room 343. Why do we not say, Aristotle is in room 343? Or that Descartes was found in the river? Unless they are more than their bodies. Maybe our use of this language is a clue to our nature. Without much objection from […]
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Reader Survey 2016
I want to make sure my blog serves your needs and address issues you are concerned about too. Would you please take a few minutes to fill out the survey? Just goto https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G3JPBYN By doing so, you will ultimately be helping yourself. Why? Because you will be helping me create blogs that are amazingly relevant! Your input […]
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How not to debate!
I was meeting a fellow professor who said he was having a hard time with people who do not read the literature outside of their own peer group on Climate Change. As we talked–the topic of creation came up and he basically said he will not engage the evidence for God. Ironic? Yes. He said […]
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Don’t Follow your passion
When I was in elementary school I wanted to be an astronaut. I also wanted to be a lawyer, a musician and even a movie star, yep even me. Where would I be if I followed my passion? I am not saying that you should ignore your passion but something even deeper and more profound. […]
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Christmas is not Pagan, or is it?
Is Christmas pagan? One dear friend of mine does all he can to isolate his family from Christmas customs such as but not limited to Christmas trees, Santa Claus, reindeer, Mistletoes. Is he right? Much of the customs we have adopted are rooted in the secular and pagan world. So then why celebrate Christ’s birth? […]
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Justice is blind but philosophically painful
“Do you believe in the devil Father?” These are just few of the questions and issues that the Netflix series DareDevil address. It has superb cinematography, brilliant acting and is an over all philosophically stimulating series! I invited my film critic cousin Sammer Sweis to join me in the review of this intoxicating new show! […]
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The Unexamined life is boring!
Socrates said that “The unexamined life is not worth living” Is yours an examined life? Is what we believe about life, meaning, death, God, immorality, truth, justice, morality, sex and freedom, to name a few, true? This is my first official Podcast :)It is a segment of my lecture, “Introduction to Philosophy,” in particular Plato’s Cave. In […]
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Speaking with the Devil
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” -GK Chesterton. An amazing thing happened! I flew into New York last week to be on a panel discussion with some of the creators of Marvel’s hit Daredevil Netflix series. It […]
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004: Science vs God– Are we all here by Chance?
Something radical happened to me when I was 16 years old at Argo High School. My science teacher, Ms Moon began to talk about human evolution, she talked about, in so many words how we human beings, like other forms of life, have developed from aboriginal unicellular life by way of such mechanisms as natural […]
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What you did not know about your soul
In the Harry Potter series, the Dementors drain the body of its soul. But what is the soul and how did we get one? Or are we one? One day I asked my cobbler, “How is your soul?” and he said “You mean my sole”? We got a good laugh. But how can we measure how […]
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Four Pillars to True Greatness
Don’t try to shoot for greatness. Don’t aim for goodness. Don’t try to find success. What! Yes you read that right. Meaning, or goodness, or greatness do not come when you focus on them as theoretical entities. In fact the more you focus on them the more you will miss them. To be great we need […]
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How to avoid making the most embarrassing of logical errors
She stood up in my class and gave us all three logical reasons is to why logic is not useful and reasoned for us as to why we should not be using reason. My student, was cutting her own philosophical throat. She was making what philosophers call a self-refuting statement. Allow me to explain. […]
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