Tag Archives: Knowing God

“Deepest Feelings” or Right and Wrong?

I didn’t catch this exactly enough to quote it all, but it went something like this. Mark Halperin was on one of the morning shows this morning, discussing the (apparently) surprising pushback the Obama administration has been getting this week, since announcing there would be only narrow exceptions to the new federal requirement that insurers …

February 7, 2012 – 2:44 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics, Knowing God, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (86)

To Turn Down the Noise and Hear Truth

doctor(logic), you say, It’s possible for a god to exist and to hide himself so that no rational being will believe in his existence. It’s also possible for a god to leave plenty of evidence for his existence, so that rational minds will believe he exists. Human minds are noisy. We have biases. In order …

May 11, 2011 – 8:40 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God | Tagged , , | Comments (30)

Social Decision-Making and the Question of God

The second article in my monthly Worldview and You at BreakPoint column has just been posted. My intent with this column is to provide basic teaching in (a) what worldview is all about, and (b) connecting worldview to current issues. This piece is titled God: The Central Question of Worldview. Here’s some of what I …

May 3, 2011 – 7:47 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Knowing God, Life and Choices, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments Off

On Not Being Young

Being young was never what it was cracked up to be. Our media culture wants us to think it’s the greatest thing, but they’re wrong. If someone somehow offered me the chance to go back, I would say, “no, thank you.” Sure, I could stand to have my joints back in the condition they once …

February 25, 2011 – 8:48 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)