Can Someone Become Possessed
This is an adult post so I expect discretion. And there’s language in the video. The above video is one of those YouTube sensations that blows your mind. In a world where we catalog everything, a young man just happened to capture his brother freaking out. His mother had just cancelled his World of Warcraft online account and he was …
Love In The Face Of Unspeakable Evil
One of the central conflicts in the human story is how we deal with the reality of unspeakable evil. I make the argument in Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity that the cross is God’s response to how far we as humans think we can go. It invites us into the reality that there is nothing we …
The Reality Of Hell
[Note: The above video contains graphic violence.] Sometimes I wonder if our fear of hell in the afterlife is keeping us from seeing the reality of hell in this life. Some of you may know that I spent some time working in Hollywood. I wanted to be a screenwriter after growing up watching movies. I was captivated by the storytelling …
The Nature of Evil
I’ve been doing some research on comparative versions on the origin of evil and came across this conclusion. The general pattern in Eastern religions is to consider evil as the effect of spiritual ignorance. The first noble truth proclaimed by the Buddha states that the only reality of human existence is the all-pervading reality of suffering. This perspective is valid …
Violent Displeasure
I have a friend who is very self-destructive. And I know enough about our own brokenness to understand why. But some times his acts are so self-destructive that they boggle my mind. And then Peter Rollins went and offered an interesting take on an old movie, The Bridges of Madison County. And in it he mentioned the quote from Nietzsche. …
