by Jason Dykstra | Jul 20, 2024 | Afterlife, Theology
With the recent passage of July 4 – and before that Memorial Day – I have come to appreciate these days of reflection more and more. The longer I live life without being in the service or police force, the more I feel indebted to them (even after a...
by Jason Dykstra | Jun 30, 2024 | Logic, Theology
Nowadays, you can’t get within a mile of a bookstore without spotting scads of self-help (or “self-care”) titles, and this may be the mother of them all! It offers not one, but fifty different methods to help yourself out of whatever problems you...
by Jason Dykstra | Apr 19, 2024 | Faith, Theology
I had an engaging conversation the other day about how having a mammalian pet is like having an extra kid. Maybe the same is true for reptiles or amphibians, I don’t know. Then later that day, I was relaxing on the couch when a distinct odor caught my...
by Jason Dykstra | May 23, 2023 | Logic, Theology
I’m not a warm fuzzy kinda guy. I can be sensitive and social, but the job I chose literally confines me to a sterile, dark room all alone…and I like that. I’m meticulous, analytical, and logically calculating, preferring numbers and words to...
by Jason Dykstra | Mar 21, 2023 | Logic, Theology
In this post, I’ma be droppin’ some science! Now for those of you aren’t friends with that word, hakuna matata, we’re not gonna go that deep. But over the last 20 years, I’ve wandered my way into many conversations concerning antagonism...
by Jason Dykstra | Jan 30, 2023 | Practical, Theology
If there’s one thing I’ve learned (you probably have as well), it’s that intelligence and wisdom often don’t correlate. I’ve seen the most biased, unsupportable claims preached by the academic. And I’ve heard the most enduring,...
