One tragic and paradoxical consequence of the Fall is this: we have become bent inward, seeing the whole world only with reference to our own wills and desires and self-interest, but at the same time we have lost the ability to see ourselves – and our wants and desires and self-interest – with true objectivity. …
Author: Sam Hardman
It’s an interesting question, don’t you think? Is suffering the Christian’s friend or is it an enemy? We all have to deal with this question in some way, whether we seek to answer it consciously and explicitly or simply let it linger just below the surface of conscious thought, where it still has consequences for …
I am looking out my kitchen window this morning at a lovely, delicate snowfall that is covering the world – at least my little corner of it – with a dusting of pure white. You know the sort of snowfall I mean. Not the sort where the snow is piling up at an inch or …
The Babylon Bee recently did a wide-ranging interview with Elon Musk that stretched over the better part of two hours. For any who don’t know, The Babylon Bee is a right-of-center satirical Christian website, founded in 2016, whose audience has exploded over the last three years. Most of what they do is satirical “reporting” on …
Is there such a thing? The phrase sounds rather oxymoronic, “unwelcome friend.” But we all know in our hearts, I suppose, that such a word pairing actually expresses a curious aspect of reality. We have all had people in our lives who at one time or another may have seemed to be no friend to …
I suppose we all struggle with self-awareness. There is an image that we want to project to the world – a way that we want to be perceived – and there is an image that we think we are projecting, but the image that we actually do project may be quite different. Sometimes we think we are less than we are …
The Pain and Pleasure of Having Pretensions ExposedRead More »
Picture this: “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And [his disciples] woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’” (Mark 4:37-38). If this scene …
No doubt the use of the verb “to know” as the favored way of describing sexual intimacy in the Bible must seem an oddity to the modern Western mind. “Now Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain….” (Gen. 4:1). The insight that this sort of language offers into the nature of …
Lord, you have bid the weary to come to you, And in my weariness I come. The pilgrimage through this world is so often hard, Read more
Sam Hardman Imagine this: You are responsible for 350 children in Nigeria, all of whom have either been orphaned or are from impoverished families. You have built an orphanage to house and educate these children. You have also purchased seventeen acres of land to raise crops to feed them and to produce cash to help …