There is much more I can say about this.  
I determined early on my family’s development that I would always go to Sunday Church. I think the reason was this: that I wanted my kids to love the church, even in it’s glaring flaws and inconsistencies. Since that time, the Local Church has not been exemplary in its display of the biblical standard. Yet, we have rarely missed attendance over the years.

There is a growing interest in departing from the church along with its local manifestations. …

I thought you would enjoy this article written by my son Sam…

Throughout the history of Christianity, many great apologists and philosophers have attempted to develop logical arguments to rationally demonstrate that God exists. One of the most notable of these attempts is that of St. Thomas Aquinas, who laid out several persuasive arguments for God’s existence in his multi-volume work Summa Theologica. No argument can really prove God’s existence, but cumulatively they can be very compelling and persuasive. One of the less well known of them but one I …

Anyone in our world who devotes his whole life to seeking heaven will be like Reepicheep. (CS Lewis, Letters to Children)
In the CS Lewis fantasy The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, when presented with an opportunity to enjoy a daily king’s feast and stay back from the risk and peril of continuing on to the “World’s End,”  Reepicheep replies:
“My own plans are made.  While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. when she fails me, I paddle  east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east …

Walking is a perpetual state of imbalance. It is a recurring prevention or “catching” ourselves from falling. We step forward with our right foot and just before we fall precariously forward our left foot takes the initiative and prevents the disastrous results of the right foot. Even though it becomes second nature, without this fluid state of imbalance, we could only stand still. Interesting…. You can’t move forward without becoming imbalanced first…
I noted in a previous post that there are those who may take exception to some of …