Author: David Ellis

Jay told us the tragic news that Harry had suffered a stroke and was in an induced coma at the University of Michigan Hospital. As of the time of this transcript, he was declared nearly brain-dead and was being taken off life support. May God’s grace speed a good man to the better place he…

Don: Today we will examine more closely the central part of the Parable of the Sower. It begins, you recall, with Jesus addressing “the multitude,” a crowd that had assembled on the beach hoping to hear him preach. He told them the parable, and then the scripture recounts a very important transition as Jesus, leaving…

Don: Jack Nicholson’s character Colonel Jessep had the following heated exchange with defense attorney Lt. Kaffee (Tom Cruise) in the movie “A Few Good Men.” It marked the climax, the denouement, of the entire move: Kaffee: *Colonel Jessep, did you order the Code Red?* Judge Randolph: You don’t have to answer that question! Col. Jessep:…

Don: Our discussion of the truth about god seems to have led us to conclude that it has elements both of knowledge (“data points”) and of faith. On the one hand, if the truth about god is to be a timeless truth, it cannot be bound by culture or by age; as we read in…

Don: Last week I said we would look at Romans 1:18-25, which gives an explicit definition of the truth about god: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for…

8 August 2014 Last updated at 12:04 ET A Point of View: Why not caring about anything is only for the young by Will Self It is not the content of our beliefs that really matters, so much as the practice of believing itself, argues Will Self. In Dostoevsky’s great metaphysical whodunit, The Brothers Karamazov,…

Don: Last week we asked several questions about the truth about god. Does the truth about god require data to support it, as scientific truth does? Has the accumulation of data over time given modern Wo/Man a more complete truth about god than our ancestors had? Or is there something about the truth about god…

Don: We are still looking at the question of what is truth; in particular, the truth about god. 1 John 4:1-8 and 18-21 tell us: Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you…

Don: We have been studying the book of Matthew for 11 years so far, and have reached chapter 18, in which Jesus, in talking about the community he called the kingdom of heaven, outlines the key ingredients, or what we are calling the pillars, of community. The first pillar is the absence of authority: The…