Sean Penn Connects Mystery with Truth

When everything gets answered, it's fake—the mystery is the truth.

—Actor Sean Penn

God Expects Us to Explore His Truth

Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in his own image. God invites and expects us to explore ...

Pilot Caught in a Deadly Spiral

In the early days of aviation, planes were not yet equipped with gyroscopic turn indicators. When pilots flew through clouds or fog, they would often ...

Unknown Peril in Culture

In Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer tells of his harrowing experience climbing Mt. Everest. On May 10, 1996, Krakauer made it to the top. He paused only for ...

Steven Van Zandt: Christianity Plus

"I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis ...

Many Truths

The notion that there are many truths might seem well suited to a diverse society. But when everyone is free to define truth as he or she prefers, as ...

Lost Horizon

We've lost sight of the fact that some things are always right and some things are always wrong. We've lost our reference point. We don't ...

Tolerating the Unimportant

Gibbon ... said that in Roman society all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally ...

Bored with a Boring God?

I do not know why so much of mainline Protestantism has become a joyless religion. Perhaps we are more impressed by the problems of the world than by ...

An Amusing Pagan

[Kate said to her Jewish colleague]: "There were a dozen different religions among the children at [my school]. We seemed always to be celebrating ...