Can God Be Known?

Michelangelo, Creation of Adam (Sistine chapel) (1512)

Can we actually know anything about God? This is one of the most fundamental questions, and many people, particularly agnostics, will say “no.” The argument tends to go something like this: God, if there is a God, is so far removed from human experience and knowledge that there’s nothing that we can say about Him (or Her… Continue reading Can God Be Known?

Our National Sin: What Racism Reveals About God and Man

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, The First Thanksgiving (1915) There’s a side to Thanksgiving with which you might not be familiar: historically, this was a day in which Americans were encouraged to call upon God both in gratitude for His blessings, and to ask mercy for our sins.† We see seeds of this in Lincoln’s 1863… Continue reading Our National Sin: What Racism Reveals About God and Man