Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Picture this: you’re standing in a church during worship, or at home in your online version of church, and you sing the words, “God is faithful.” Something moves in you because you’re in the middle of a situation that needs that assurance. And in your soul, if not out of your mouth, you affirm with…

“The truth will set you free.”  Jesus shares this with us in the Gospel of John. At the beginning of the 8th chapter, sin is highlighted in the account of a woman caught in adultery. The temple priests bring her before Jesus (John 8:3-11). He tells them, “Let him who is without sin among you…

Let’s play a game. I’m going to write some truths from Scripture or lyrics from a song, and you write down or say the first thoughts that come to mind. Here we go: “God is good.” “What more can He say than to you He has said?” (Hymn lyric: How Firm a Foundation) “The truth…

Don’t tell people things that aren’t true. When people say, “Believe what you need to to get you through,” I’m insulted. God help us all if we’re just believing whatever we like to help us through. That kind of thinking works for some things like performing or taking a test or walking into a crowded…

Now and again, I imagine this life in the context of an eight-lane highway. It’s busy, it’s fast, it’s riddled with potholes, faults, dips and bumps. And casualties. Lots and lots of casualties. I imagine myself, not as a driver, but as a pedestrian, standing on one side of this eight-lane highway and I’m trying…

I am not a tattoo person. But I’m reconsidering. My body has done a couple of uncontrollable things while grieving. One of those things is to throw my hands in the air in worship at the mere mention of conquering sin and death. Despite my contemplative countenance in church these days, the cross of Christ…

I’m used to long, early-morning brisk walks. I kept up that routine for my own good through David’s illness until just a couple of weeks before that fateful day. Now, for the most part, my body moves in slow motion. Fast, productive and efficient are typically my thing. Slow and silent are my thing for…

One of the things I’ve thought about over the summer is that I only know my marriage to Cam with David in it. Cam and I’ve been married since 1990. I had David and Aaron when I was so young. I was 23 and married two years when I held that first baby boy bundle.…

“How do you distract yourself?”  That’s a question I’ve been asked multiple times over the last several weeks. I understand why people ask me that. And I think they may just be using language that doesn’t actually relay what they mean. How do you distract yourself? My answer: “I don’t. Distracting myself isn’t the goal.…

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die” (John 11:25). Recently, Cam and I walked across the street to a neighbor’s yard for a casual gathering. Small and low key. That’s our speed right now.  As we approached the small…