Bruce Meyer

The ratings for NBC’s new show Revolution are good, easily beating its rivals on ABC and CBS. Seemingly inspired by the hit movie The Hunger Games (bows and arrows and all), the setting takes place 15 dystopian years after a catastrophic event that changed the world.

Unfortunately, when these technically frazzled people turn to religion, they are often hit with more rules and demands. Religions often focus backwards while progress speeds forward, leaving adherents painfully stretched in between like on a medieval torture device.

A team of physicists announced last week, after a two-year study, that they’re 99.996 percent sure dark energy is real. So what is it that they’re so sure about?
At the turn of the last century, most astronomers believed the universe was neither expanding nor contracting.

Religious fundamentalism is a reaction to this alienation. People search “to find the places we used to play.” They crave something heavy to anchor their lives; something that won’t change; something to serve as a reference point.

What if the magnitude of God’s truth is so vast and the human mind so small that each of us can only see a minuscule piece of the picture? What if God in his infinite wisdom spread political viewpoints across a normal distribution of liberals, moderates, and conservatives?

According to this book report of "What is Time", Gary Driver takes an approach to the Bible that is very popular today. I hear it in the preaching around many of the churches I’ve visited in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene area, including Real Life Ministries and Life Center.

A hallmark of most major religions is that God is omniscient, that he knows everything. He knows the future as well as the present and the past. This has spawned many an argument over the extent of free will.