There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.