by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 15, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
It’s true that different people find different particular things beautiful, ugly, or plain. This seems to validate the notion that beauty is subjective, that there is no accounting for taste, as the saying goes. But everyone agrees that eating really delicious food...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 1, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Jesus, quoting Moses, says that the greatest good for a human is to love God with all our being and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. This at least implies that self-love is good and healthy, but it places healthy self-love in the context of relationship. We...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 18, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In spite of our culture’s current skepticism about knowledge, people nevertheless are desperate to know what’s real and true. How is this possible? How can we find a model of knowing that doesn’t artificially divide “faith” and “knowledge”? How can we avoid the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 4, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Anger is not inherently good or bad, but is right or wrong depending on its motive and its object. Righteous anger, in fact, is necessary for a healthy humanity – to be confronted by gross injustice and not be angry would be inappropriate and (perhaps even)...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 22, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Hinduism, as an eastern religion, emphasizes the ultimate spiritual reality of humans and nature. Contemplating this truth can provide a welcome corrective to American Christians who tend – along with the rest of our culture – to value and emphasize the...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 24, 2023 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Depression, far from being a purely physical or purely psychological or spiritual problem, affects every part of the person who is experiencing it. Physical remedies – everything from eating right and becoming more active to perhaps taking doctor-prescribed...
