Today in church I got to: 1. speak about how the Reformation made it possible for people to have direct access to the scriptures and a personal relationship with God, rather than through a Priest and how the Restoration gave us even more scriptures and a better understanding of God; 2. lead a discussion of [...]
There are some who subscribe to the view that faith and reason are diametrically opposed, mutually exclusive concepts. There is another view. Paul defined faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” I am not going to investigate the original Greek as it is this common English translation that [...]
It is the fatal conceit of statists that efficient central planning is possible with sufficient data. No matter how much data they collect it can never be more than a tiny fraction of the data held within the minds of individuals dispersed throughout society. The reason is because words are imperfect symbols and we always [...]
Fathers aren’t dispensable just yet – life – 22 July 2009 – New Scientist. The anecdotes of isolated success in non-traditional families notwithstanding, both biological and cultural (sociological) evolution provides ample evidence that a child”s welfare is optimized by being raised by his/her natural father and natural mother. Studies like this are supportive but not [...]