My Actual Year In Review: 5 Things God Taught Me in 2015

December isn’t just a time for the same Christmas songs to be looped on all the muzaks, it’s also the time that all the end of the year lists and reviews come out! Facebook throws together a compilation of all the pictures you posted that got the most likes, Spotify puts together a playlist of

Being More Like Charlie Brown: Finding Love in Complete Hopelessness

“Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy.” – Charlie Brown Christmas isn’t always “the most wonderful time of the year.” In fact, for many it can be perhaps the most difficult time of year. It can remind you of loved ones you’ve lost, it can remind you of your lack of love, it can accentuate

A Counterfactual Christmas: God, George Bailey, Scrooge, and Alternative Futures

As The Beatles once said: Christmas time is here again! That means it’s time to crank the Phil Spector Christmas album and deeply ponder philosophical issues surrounding the direction your measly existence is taking (and whether you can change it or not): putting the “merry” in Merry Christmas, obviously! I’ve decided to address/consider some of the philosophical/theological