Yielding To Christianity

Patricia Hofer

“a child’s heart but a grown up’s head”

CS Lewis wrote: “Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only ‘as harmless as doves,’ but also ‘as wise as serpents.’ He wants a child’s heart but a grown up’s head.” (Mere Christianity 61). Some believers today, however, seem to have the impression that using human intelligence to understand what Jesus said is somehow less Christian. Yet it seems to me that… Continue reading

Who are we?

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him?” (KJ Psalms 8:3-4)
What exactly is a human being’s purpose in the universe? The vastness of the night sky, seen even with the naked eye, might easily make us feel small and unimportant. John A. Wheeler, a theoretical physicist posed a very similar question: “How come existence?”… Continue reading

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