by Jakob Topper | Aug 4, 2021 | Opinion
“Try being an atheist.” That’s the strangest pastoral advice I’ve ever given. It wasn’t a joke or a trick either. A friend (not a church member) came to me for help because they were struggling with suicidal ideation. “What do you do if god hates you?” That was how...
by Daniel Schweissing | Jan 16, 2018 | Opinion
Bart Campolo’s story is well-known. Confronted with his own mortality following a 2011 bike crash that left him with a severe concussion, Bart – the son of evangelical icon Tony Campolo – left behind his Christian faith and nearly three decades of...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 13, 2017 | Opinion
When Friedrich Nietzsche declared that “God is dead,” he added this question: “What kind of a sponge does it take to wipe away a whole horizon?” I often ask that question because just in my own lifetime there has been an unprecedented decline...
by Roger Olson | Jan 7, 2016 | Opinion
Do all atheists deny the same God? “Atheism” literally means, “without belief in God.” However, it has come to refer to denial of the existence of God to distinguish it from “agnosticism,” which is denial of knowledge of God....
by Leroy Seat | Oct 7, 2015 | Opinion
Why are people who show most evidence of firmly believing in and being committed to God not taken more seriously by atheists? There are many noted people who made significant life changes because of what they resolutely believed was a direct experience of God. Within...
