Miracles & "Scientism"       One of the toxic and false ideas of our age might be called scientism, the idea that science is the only path to truth.       One online definition of “science” is, “the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.” The earlier, classic definition of “science” was “knowledge of any kind,” meaning, of course, human knowledge.       Is human knowledge the only path to truth? To knowing “what is”? (The best definition of “truth.”) Is, “systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world,” the only path to truth? Even if we don’t understand everything about a cell, an atom, and how the universe works today, might we someday expect human science to figure it all out?       No.       Why ...

Today's Seemingly Up-Side-Down World.        Have you been wondering what has happened to our world? How so much seems to have become upside down? Do we know what’s going on? Really?       For example, many people in Ukraine are suffering and displaced, yes. Is it because of a war where Russia is the aggressor? Or is the Ukraine still part of Russia’s territory and Russia is doing a policing operation to stop the last eight years’ slaughter of thousands of Russian people living in the Donbas area? Or is the world really controlled by a cabal/mafia/deep state and Russia is now cleaning up a central stronghold? Or is it just another plan for oligarchs of both Russia and the West to reap billions more of wealth from the military industrial complex? It depends who you listen to, doesn’t it?       In mid-June the NY Times reported President Biden saying the U.S. has no awareness of what is going on in the Ukraine unles...

On Mistaken Belief          The last book in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia  called, The Last Battle , portrays different responses when a person believes something is true that later is learned to be false.       Now hard times had come on Narnia, and many Narnians were enslaved to the Calormen – although the Ape (a stooge for Tash, the Satan character) wants to convince them they are not enslaved. Ape mocks the Narnians as being naive for thinking they are enslaved and says, “Tash is only another name for Aslan [the Christ character]. All that old idea of us [Narnians] being right and the Calormenes wrong is silly. We know better now. The Calormenes use different words but we all mean the same thing. Tash and Aslan are only two different names for you know Who.... Get that into your heads, you stupid brutes. Tash is Aslan; Aslan is Tash.” Lewis is describing a situation where good and evil are so mixed as to be allegedly the sa...

What Is Real?       I’ve been mulling over a recent conversation where someone confided to me that she has questioned for years and years what is real and how does she know what is real. I’ve had the same questions! And how can I really trust what I know when society, others, our culture, seem to say the opposite?       The more I’ve mulled over that conversation – thinking about recent political events, and what the culture seeks to impress upon us that disconnects from our real experience – I’ve become convinced that a lot of us must also have the same questions.       I think it is an evil that began in Genesis when the devil, that snake, asked, “ Hath Godsaid...? ” and sowed doubt where there otherwise was clear certainty.       The devil found the hook by human desire turned inward to self. We want something more: God, truth, beauty, peace, love, happiness. Yes! We are made for this! We are ma...