The recent death of Osama Bin Laden has created a buzz in the world of Facebook, Twitter and online discussions. President Obama announced that after ten elusive years, the mastermind terrorist of the September 11 attacks had been slain by the fighting elite of SEAL Team 6. News coverage showed exuberant residents Washington D.C. reveling [...]

From Suriname June 20, 2010 People have often asked me if meeting and/or interacting with another American, or even another white person for that matter, is a positive occurrence. One would think, in light of the fact that I live alone in a village in which there have been stretches as long a month-and-a-half with [...]

Enthusiastic Nevada County residents commemorated the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., crowding into the auditorium at the miner’s foundry Monday to partake in what resembled a typical Gospel Church service in the south. Soulful voices resonating and accompanied by the swaying of an eager, genial crowd made one feel they were every [...]

I don’t want you to think that I am about to tell you what I think Jesus would think. That would be rather pointless. And stupid. If someone tries to base their opinion on their opinion of someone else’s opinion, leave them to it. What I want to do is examine a situation in which [...]

Your individual identity, in a regional sense, is only fully realized when you reside somewhere outside your home (whether city, state or country).  In the Suriname interior, I’m often designated the “American boy” and even more inclusively as a “baaka” (foreigner).  It happens when you are the sole white person in a village of 3,000 [...]

The other day I walked into a room and gasped in shock. I couldn’t believe my eyes, and I had to do a double take. No, they were really there. I was in a room with Dave Matthews, Oprah, and Lebron James. The funny thing, they were all watching TV. Receiving news; news of the [...]

How do we know what the right thing to do is?  Is there a way to differentiate between right and wrong without a standard?  Speaking of the latter, when there is no standard for what is right and what is wrong morality then becomes relative to the mind, or eye, of the beholder.  Questions people [...]

Step 3- Numinous Awe and Morality collide Finally, we have come to the third step that Lewis believes every religion experiences at its foundation. We would do well to note that this is the final step according to his calculations that every religion experience, and the fourth step is saved for Christianity alone. To recap, [...]

Step Two- The Presence of Morality and Guilt The next step in C.S. Lewis’s road to religion is morality. If you remember, Lewis observes that every major religion has three steps at its foundation. Then, Lewis goes on to say that Christianity has a fourth step that sets it apart and gives validity to Christianity [...]

Question:  Will the person who has never heard the gospel go to hell? I am not under the false allusion here that this is a tough question to tackle within our post-modern generation where people slap ‘co-exist’ bumper stickers on the back of their cars and rail anybody who preaches an exclusive message.  What is [...]