Previous essays on faith: On Faith: Faith & Reason A reader once wrote me regarding her husband whom she had recently lost. He was a man some years older than she, who succumbed to multiple myeloma and Alzheimer’s disease. She, a Christian, struggled to make sense of his death, and the difficult questions of why God…
Category: On Faith
Multipart series on the topic of faith
3. On Faith: The Transaction
Previous essays on faith: On Faith: Faith & Reason On Faith: Healing Faith In previous essays, I discussed the challenge of reconciling faith and reason, and the challenge of suffering and the will of a good and loving God. In today’s culture faith is often dismissed as a foolish crutch of the ignorant buffoon, dismissed by…
1. On Faith: Faith & Reason
In July 1940, an engineering marvel was completed: the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge. One of the longest suspension bridges in the world at the time, it exemplified the light, graceful architectural trend of suspension bridges built in this era. Called the crowning achievement of his career, designer Leon Moisseiff—the architect of the Golden Gate and…