Thoughts from a Sandwich

“I love you.” Do you remember the first time you ever hear that sentence? Probably not—most likely it was first spoken by a parent or lov...

I remain on Credo House’s mailing list, receiving notification of C. Michael Patton’s recent blog entry concerning doubt. What struck me ...

How are lawyers like nuclear weapons? Because if the other side has one, you have to get your own; once launched they can never be recalled...

So you ask me to write a contract. After considerable time (and even more considerable cost) I present a 54 page, bound document with embos...

Humans believe what motivates themselves would motivate others. Therefore, they often advertise a product with what they think is compellin...

Most people will only appear before a Judge one or two times in their life. A traffic ticket, minor issue with the landlord. Unsurprisingl...

Matthew’s Gospel uniquely records a relatively well-known instance regarding resurrection of other persons at the time of Jesus’ resurrectio...

Over at Gullible’s Travels D’Ma wrote of a recent conversation with a Sunday School teacher, asking the question almost every deconvert hea...

Each Warrior Dash is different, with varying obstacles. This description will only fit for my experience. Our friends have a membership i...

In dating ancient documents, we attempt to determine a terminus a quo (point after which the document was written) and a terminus ad quem ...

In another discussion, I was informed: You are the first skeptic to essentially tell me that his mind is closed to what I have to say, an...

In every criminal trial, the defense attorney performs an obligation—presenting a possible scenario creating reasonable doubt their client i...

The proof Satan exists is that he has deceived you into thinking he doesn’t exist. QED

Obviously, one week (and a few thousand years) later—no Rapture has been forthcoming. I smiled at all those “true believers” who smugly sm...

The United States was developed under an interesting, mutli-faceted balancing act. Not only the famous Checks-and-Balance within the three ...

Apparently Blogger Ate Yesterday's post. Which was: Last month, I was reading Dr. Dale Allison’s Constructing Jesus--another learned ...

Last month, I was reading Dr. Dale Allison’s Constructing Jesus --another learned treatise explaining a scholar’s conclusions what we can or...

After listening to the final lecture, I was left with the same puzzlements carried throughout the first three—what exactly is the point here...