Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Words like “us” and “them” and “those people” can roll easily off the tongue. Those words tell who we are by telling who we are not.  We are not “them.” Those words tell where we belong.  We are “us.”  We are not “them.” Those words tell what makes us unique.  We are like “us.”  We…

“My God, my God, why have your forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.”                         …

He told Noah to build a big boat when it had never rained. He told Abraham to leave everything familiar to go to a place that he didn’t know. He told Moses to go toe to toe with the most powerful man in the world and then to lead a stubborn people on an impossible…

Just then he looked up and saw the rich people dropping offerings in the collection plate. Then he saw a poor widow put in two pennies. He said, “The plain truth is that this widow has given by far the largest offering today. All these others made offerings that they’ll never miss; she gave extravagantly…

#anticipate   November 30 – Romans 13:11-14 December 1 – 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 December 2 – Mark 13:33-37 December 3 – John 1:1-5 December 4 – John 1:6-9 December 5 – Jeremiah 33:14-16 December 6 – Isaiah 6 December 7 – Romans 15: 4-13 December 8 – Psalm 43: 3-6 December 9 – Psalm 27:…

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the world. Live as children of light…                        Ephesians 5:8   Are things getting better or are they getting worse? It might simply be a question of optimism or pessimism, but I tend to think it is so much more. One leads to hope,…

Aron Lee Ralston cut his own hand off with a dull pocketknife after it became trapped by a boulder in a canyoneering accident in 2003. The story spawned the acclaimed movie “127 hours.” Pi was always taught to take care of and be respectful to all animals but when he was stranded on a boat…

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received… But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.” Ephesians 4:1, 7 It happens in chapter 3 of Ephesians… “For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ…

“…that you being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19…

Ephesians 3:3-13 I can’t remember the last time I stood before a large group of teenagers and trembled… but last Sunday my hands were shaking. I could barely hold the iPad steady enough to capture the video footage that I knew would be so incredibly precious to this young couple in the years to come.…