Jared Byas News Today

Is your God too small? You might want to do something about that.

There is nothing that is too lowly or humble that God cannot use it. That includes you and me. And compost piles.

When it comes to giving gifts, it’s hard to go wrong with words. Here are some of the wordy gifts we’ll be giving this...

The choice to believe in God’s existence is the beginning of choices, not the end. What God do I choose to believe in? What sort of God makes sense in the context of the world I experience daily?

The problem of evil becomes more than an academic or classroom exercise, particularly for persons of traditional Christian faith, as thousands of innocent people die in the Israel/Hamas conflict and as eighteen innocent people were murdered by a shooter in Lewiston, Maine in recent weeks.

I consider myself to be well informed and well read, but every once in a while I read or hear something so new that I have to say, “I’ve never thought about that before!’ followed quickly by “This is really important. Why haven’t I ever thought about this before?"

When people talk about that creepy, gross post about sex at The Gospel Coalition, you have to ask which one?

Our varied human experiences are what both make us human and shape how we see and understand everything, including our faith.

As Simone Weil writes in her notebooks, “I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.” When it comes to the Bible, that’s a good idea—because the Bible is made of chocolate, after all.

Over the past year or so I have read several books by Peter Enns, a professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. In his 2014 book